Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Batty monitors and cheap video
Message-ID: <1989Oct2.011535.23529@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Sep28.122217.26867@watcsc.waterloo.edu> <57732@psuecl.bitnet> <3863@blake.acs.washington.edu> <57950@psuecl.bitnet>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 89 01:15:35 GMT

In article <57950@psuecl.bitnet> peg@psuecl.bitnet writes:
>... I still can't see ripping the top off of
>an ordinary RAM--any way you do it is going to contaminate or destroy
>some of the chip.

According to the Weinstein book, it *can* be done.  The Robotics group
at Case Western Reserve tried it in 1978, and found that it was not hard
to avoid damaging the chip (given suitable packages -- plastic-packaged
ones are out, you need something that you can just remove the lid from)
and that exposure to the air was not, in the short run at least, a problem.
For the RAMs of the time, anyway.
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