[Gllug] The BBC and Microsoft.

[colin murphy]

Dan Kolb wrote:

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> On Monday 29 Oct 2001 23:16 pm, Chris Bell wrote:
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>>   I just thought that a short description and view of typical layouts, and
>>a mention of electrical safety, electrostatic precautions, adequate
>>cooling, careful assembly, and neat and tidy interconnections, would be
>>appreciated by those people who have not seen inside any computer, and have
>>just treated them as a magic black (or cream) box.
>>
> 
> Sounds like a good idea - just don't go too far into taking precautions, 
> otherwise it'll sound more dangerous than stopping a chainsaw with bare hands.
> 


Or do take it all the way with CompsLab Challenge - like Scrapheap 
Challenge, with bits of old veroboard, 30Km of patching wire and an 8k 
eeprom blower you have 8 hours to make a DVD player play Region 1 disks.


It's only a matter of time 'til somwone else does it!

Colin.


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