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It wasn’t just CPUs, at the time it was also common to pay a premium for faster RAM chips. In many cases a chip marked as a 70ns speed could be reconfigured to
by brk 4y ago
It wasn’t just CPUs, at the time it was also common to pay a premium for faster RAM chips. In many cases a chip marked as a 70ns speed could be reconfigured to support 50ns easily by adding or removing a surface mount resister or cutting a solder pad.
- MBCook 4y agoThe old pencil trick on early Athlons! http://www.ocmelbourne.com/tutorials/PencilTrick/ http://www.ocmelbourne.com/tutorials/PencilTrick/