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   Stephen Edwards to All   
   Re: How to kill an OS that's already dea   
   21 Dec 05 17:39:06   
   
   XPost: alt.flame, alt.os.linux   
   From: wookie@deathstar.net   
      
   GANEFS! wrote:   
   > Stephen Edwards wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>GANEFS! wrote:   
   >>   
   >>8< SNIP >8   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>i've got a sweet mo-board from some applied biosystems lab instrument that   
   >>>was being upgraded/tossed that's got a zilog z-80, several z-80 i/o chips,   
   >>>and a   
   >>>rom cartridge slot (with a cart).  still not sure what i want to do with it   
   >>>yet, but it looks like i've got a lot of desoldering to do.   
   >>   
   >>The CPUs aren't seated in sockets? That sounds kind of odd for an older   
   >>board... erm... is it an older board?   
   >   
   >   
   > yeah, the cpus are in sockets, but the romcart, clock, ram, and the various   
   > i/o are not.  what's more is that i want to re-use the sockets too... it's   
   > because i'm "lazy".  :)   
      
   You're "lazy"? A lazy person would've just tossed the board. :-)   
      
   Still, could turn into a cool hardware hacking project.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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