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. -- "Where is D.D. Harriman now, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology when we really *need* him?" | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu