[time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards

[Bob Stewart]

Brent,

I seem to remember a story about the early days of micro-computing, when Russia was cloning 8080 chips.  Their chips were of such poor quality that each chip had a unique list of executions that could not be used.  Anyway, the Russians had sized their chip in metric measurements (2.54mm) rather than inches (0.10"), so that black market imports of the real thing would not fit.

Bob



----- Original Message -----
> From: Brent Gordon <time-nuts at adobe-labs.com>
> To: time-nuts at febo.com
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 9:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OT Prototype Boards
> 
> I once saw a board that was 2.5 mm, which would cause what you 
> describe.  As soon as I figured out what the problem was, in the trash 
> it went.
> 
> Brent