Partially-bad chips; was: repairing early HP calcs

[Fred Cisin]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Dwight Elvey wrote:
> Hi
>  I don't want to bust anyones bubble but many low end computers
> sold as desk tops have partially bad chips. The term used
> is "down graded". It is still standard practice in the industry.
> Many of you may have a down graded part in your machine and
> not even know it.

How about the 32K RAMs in the RS Coco