| ??? 09/30/08 18:26 Read: times |
#158691 - Alternative use of faulty components Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Are you sure that he deliberately used faulty components to get products to repair?
What I know is that he regularly bought and used partially faulty components in partial mode to get a cheaper product. For example: Normal DRAM chips scales in a factor four, i.e. 16kbit, 64kbit, 256kbit, ... The 48kB Spectrum used faulty 64kbit chips as 32kbit memories, i.e. the 48kB where implemented with 8 16kbit chips and 8 64kbit chips. This was not bad ethics but actually quite clever - the alternative would have been to throw away all 64kbit chips that didn't pass the full tests. |
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