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Old-new stock and "unofficial" chips and parts has been a thing for like ever. Now I hear of more "mainstream" projects having to tap into that market but it ha
by pvarangot 6y ago
Old-new stock and "unofficial" chips and parts has been a thing for like ever. Now I hear of more "mainstream" projects having to tap into that market but it has always been there.
- salmo 6y agoMy boss at an internship bought like 20 NE2000 NICs for cheap somewhere in the late 1990's. We were confused when we would plug a second one in and it all went to heck no matter which 2 NICs we used. We realized they all had the same MAC address. So we just overrode the MAC in the OS and got them to work. Someone cloned a card perfectly :)
- makomk 6y agoThis happens a lot with cheap clone Bluetooth dongles for some reason - they all have the same MAC address, or one of a handful of addresses with some of the newer ones.
- simlevesque 6y ago> Old-new stock Most commonly referred to as New-old stock (NOS).