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The code archaeology was probably the most fun part for me but I had so much free time to do that because my projects were mostly maintenance as well
by etimberg 2y ago
The code archaeology was probably the most fun part for me but I had so much free time to do that because my projects were mostly maintenance as well
- positr0n 2y agoFun NI archeology story. When I was there in the early 2010s, I met a greybeard hardware engineer with a big chip mask poster on his cube wall. He told me they lost the schematics and all documentation to one of their first timing chips that was used in lots of products. They ended up calling the manufacturer and asking for the mask image back, and any question anyone had had to be reverse engineered from the mask.