Heh messing with the traces is pretty nuts. In the book Where Wizards Stay Up Late about the origins of the internet there was a similar story. Some grad studen

Heh messing with the traces is pretty nuts. In the book Where Wizards Stay Up Late about the origins of the internet there was a similar story. Some grad student needed a delay in some execution path so he cut the trace and used a very long wire to introduce the delay. I can’t remember the story exactly but it was like the ultimate brute force fix, using the laws of physics as the hack.