Emulation or the real thing?

From: SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com <(SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com)>
Date: Tue Oct 20 20:40:06 1998

heh, that sounds like a cool idea. then you could have fix-it contests similar
to what one car company did. they'd mess something up on several cars and then
teams of young mechanics would race to diagnose and fix the problem first.
just dont forget to make the program windont9x compatible. lol.

In a message dated 10/20/98 8:01:31 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
dastar_at_ncal.verio.com writes:

> SO how long is it before some really enthusiastic hacker creates a 3D
> emulator using a graphics engine like that in DOOM, that allows you to pop
> open the cover and go INSIDE the machine, home in on specific ICs,
> resistors, capacitors, etc. and stick a probe or voltmeter up to the
> leads? Basically, it would incorporate a CAD system with a SPICE system.
> You could then get really agressive and add a toolbar that has a probe,
> voltmeter, soldering iron, solder, and a whole warehouse of parts (74xx
> series TTL, resistors, caps, transformers, transistors, etc) so you can
> make hardware mods to the system. Later on, when they invent the Scent
> Printer (a device which emits the smells of the computer you are working
> on) you'll be able to know when you've shorted something because all of a
> sudden a foul, toxic cloud will be emitted.
Received on Tue Oct 20 1998 - 20:40:06 BST