Getting bent (ON topic if not thread)

From: Hotze <photze_at_batelco.com.bh>
Date: Sat Mar 14 20:53:06 1998

And I just learned that it was safe to tuch motherboard/cards when your
computers on! (BTW, any one know aout DIMM stuff?)
    Ciao,

Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, March 14, 1998 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: Getting bent (ON topic if not thread)


>
><>FYI in the old days when people would salvage chips of old unmarked card
><>a popular way to remove them was a propane torch and pliers!
><
><Old days??? I recovered chips using this method a few months ago...
>
>Same here but some of the kids may never have heard of a propane torch!
>
><Cool! If one is careful, there is more than just chips that can be
><recovered using this method -- at one point in time I could recover usabl
><chip sockets (even some 40-pinners) that I'm still using for other
><projects, and I now have a *boatload* of 8-switch DIP switch packages fo
><my hardware playing...
>
>Also SIP resistor packs, caps and even SMT devices.
>
>I've also been known to use gas stoves and even electric stoves. I've
>found the electic stoves with care can be used to pull chips with no
>board damage.
>
>Allison
>
Received on Sat Mar 14 1998 - 20:53:06 GMT

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