DEC had some employees with clearances all the way up both primary sides of
the classification ladder, General Service (GENSER, which includes some
"black" programs), and Special Compartmented Intelligence (SCI, which has
its own alphabet soup, including other kinds of "black" programs). They
need
> On Nov 28, 2018, at 9:43 AM, Ethan via cctalk wrote:
>
>> As an aside - once upon a time I worked for a company that made their own
>> Sparc boards to fit inside a supercomputer and several of them were inside
>> secure military/government establishments. Sometimes a board would fail and
As an aside - once upon a time I worked for a company that made their own
Sparc boards to fit inside a supercomputer and several of them were inside
secure military/government establishments. Sometimes a board would fail and
have to go back for a fix - and then the RTC/NVRAM chip had to be remov
As an aside - once upon a time I worked for a company that made their own
Sparc boards to fit inside a supercomputer and several of them were inside
secure military/government establishments. Sometimes a board would fail
and have to go back for a fix - and then the RTC/NVRAM chip had to be
r
On 11/27/2018 03:34 PM, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk wrote:
> When I bought that Sparcstation 4/330 at Computer Parts Barn, the 48T02
> was one of the problems with it. The chip looks like a piggieback rom
> encapsulated in epoxy.
>
> I was not reinventing the wheel at the time, I think, because i
I'd modified them as Jeff described in the past, but having the repair
boards saves significant time when doing a bunch. It also allows
non-precision cuts, since it doesn't matter if you accidentally destroy the
old connections down to the IC body. It also results in a repaired module
with no batte
One reason that I buy the new NVRAMs is that I keep failing at modifying
them. Got the polarity wrong and fried one. I destroyed one cutting down
to the terminals. I got one working, but have had problems convincing
the battery to stay in place and not rip the leads off. There is a
reason I am
When I bought that Sparcstation 4/330 at Computer Parts Barn, the 48T02
was one of the problems with it. The chip looks like a piggieback rom
encapsulated in epoxy.
I was not reinventing the wheel at the time, I think, because it was
the year 2000 or so, but I looked for a replacement and found t
