To a teenager with only a passing experience with electronics, operating a soldering iron is much easier than learning to flash an EEPROM :-) And I only had on

To a teenager with only a passing experience with electronics, operating a soldering iron is much easier than learning to flash an EEPROM :-) And I only had one working, locked laptop and a broken one. The whole endeavour was mostly to inherit my father's laptop than to recover any data. What I did with my father's data is probably a story for another time.