From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie: life without rio
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 07:38:02 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310030733080.2677-100000@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e42fb4cf.0310021547.12e4b4e0@posting.google.com>
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, kim kubik wrote:
> Lore around this time as well was that HP had given
> Joy a large sum of cash to port Unix to a 32-bit
> microprocessor they had developed, the thing sat in
> a chunk of solid gold the size of a kitchen tile,
> necessary as a heat sink. A workstation based on it
> may have actually shipped a couple of units.
>
Bulgaria, who was destined by its government to become the microelectronics
technology center of the Warsaw Pact countries, also used gold as the
connectors of the circuit boards it made. Reverse engineered Apple IIs...
I don't know if that was common practice in the west at the time, maybe 20
years earlier :)
Part of our high-school 'hands-on' education involved electronics. In grade
6 and 7 part of the curriculum involved learning how to use a soldering iron
and taking the gold (very gently) off the old circuit boards and into a cup...
andrey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-03 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-02 7:46 Tiit Lankots
2003-10-02 7:49 ` Stephen Wynne
2003-10-02 16:39 ` splite
2003-10-02 17:24 ` David Lukes
2003-10-02 21:02 ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-02 21:06 ` David Presotto
2003-10-02 21:11 ` boydomatic
2003-10-02 21:22 ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-03 1:18 ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-02 21:20 ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-02 18:13 ` jmk
2003-10-02 18:19 ` ron minnich
2003-10-02 21:13 ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-03 8:44 ` kim kubik
2003-10-03 9:04 ` boyd
2003-10-03 13:38 ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2003-10-03 13:39 ` david presotto
2003-10-03 13:49 ` david presotto
2003-10-03 16:32 ` Dan Cross
2003-10-03 16:34 ` Dan Cross
2003-10-03 16:34 ` David Presotto
2003-10-03 16:42 ` ron minnich
2003-10-06 9:01 ` kim kubik
2003-10-06 9:32 ` boyd
2003-10-03 17:10 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-10-04 8:02 ` boyd
2003-10-04 8:00 ` boyd
2003-10-04 7:57 ` boyd
2003-10-02 20:37 ` boyd
2003-10-02 21:11 ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-06 8:08 ` vdharani
2003-10-02 7:52 ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-03 17:36 ` a
2003-10-03 17:47 ` rog
2003-10-04 1:53 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-10-04 8:17 ` boyd
2003-10-06 12:52 ` [9fans] sam command language rog
2003-10-06 15:08 ` Rob Pike
2003-10-06 15:55 ` Jim Choate
2003-10-06 16:35 ` Micah Stetson
2003-10-06 16:41 ` Rob Pike
2003-10-06 16:47 ` Micah Stetson
2003-10-06 18:24 ` boyd
2003-10-07 18:34 ` rog
2003-10-07 18:48 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-10-08 14:44 ` rog
2003-10-08 15:09 ` Jim Choate
2003-10-09 0:52 ` okamoto
2003-10-08 15:46 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-10-09 17:35 ` rog
2003-10-07 20:16 ` vdharani
2003-10-07 18:59 ` Russ Cox
2003-10-08 14:33 ` rog
2003-10-08 14:44 ` Derek Fawcus
2003-10-08 15:27 ` Dan Cross
2003-10-04 8:14 ` [9fans] Newbie: life without rio boyd
2003-10-04 8:06 ` boyd
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-06 10:30 Tiit Lankots
2003-10-06 10:40 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-06 10:28 Tiit Lankots
2003-10-06 10:44 ` boyd
2003-10-04 15:58 Jack Johnson
2003-10-06 9:02 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-10-06 9:30 ` boyd
2003-10-06 10:03 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-06 10:09 ` boyd
2003-10-06 10:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-06 10:43 ` boyd
2003-10-06 9:44 ` Brian Inglis
2003-10-04 15:50 Jack Johnson
2003-10-03 9:11 Tiit Lankots
2003-10-01 14:29 Russ Cox
2003-10-01 14:24 Rasputin
2003-10-01 14:44 ` rog
2003-10-01 19:27 ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-01 22:32 ` ron minnich
2003-10-01 23:10 ` boyd, rounin
2003-10-01 15:14 ` mirtchov
2003-10-02 0:49 ` okamoto
2003-10-02 2:33 ` okamoto
2003-10-03 13:12 ` Rasputin
2003-10-03 14:31 ` jmk
2003-10-03 19:03 ` Rasputin
2003-10-03 19:20 ` jmk
2003-10-06 11:06 ` Rasputin
2003-10-06 11:11 ` boyd
2003-10-07 0:53 ` okamoto
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