On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 02:07:58PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > http://www.righto.com/2016/12/die-photos-and-analysis-of_24.html > > Ancient chip, still not a complete reverse engineering.
Likely the former Eastern block (USSR etc) completely reversed a lot of electronics and computers. From experience, certain east european country made very good clonings of Apple II (8 bit) under the name Pravetz 8* (Правец 8*). AFAIK I know, the CPU chips were eastern too. Haven't seen this personally, but one reversing approach was to "peel" the chip, taking snapshots. The western capitalists learnt this and placed explosives in the chips, which went boom at peeling. Don't know the end of this story.
