> >> > Tandy & others did this as well... My CoCos always had one screw taped
> >over
> >> > with a tamper seal - if it was punched, they wouldn't warranty it.
> >Granted,
> >>
> >> Many of those Tandy seals could be peeled off in one piece and stuck back
> >> later :-).
> >Really? Without leaving a silver foil checkerboard pattern behind? Ugh, I
> >hate those stickers.
> Does anyone have a good way to clean off that checkerboard pattern that they leave behind? It's seems to be impervious to most solvents.
Why don't they make tamper seals that are easier to tamper with?
OB_CC: In the "early days" of the TRS-80, RS had a formal policy that the
tamper seal must be intact. Modifications were OK, so long as the tamper
seal was intact. The local "technician" had a personal policy that any
mods were OK, iff you would furnish him with a schematic of the mods.
"boat in a bottle" work, putting new glyptol (sp?) on after mods, or
cutting a big hole in the case without disturbing the seal were all OK.
I got the free buffered cable bypass mod on my "untampered" machine that
had extra keys on the keyboard, lower case, software controlled reverse
video, RCA jack for the composite video, etc.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Sat Jun 29 2002 - 10:39:58 BST