Partially-bad chips; was: repairing early HP calcs

[Dwight Elvey]

>From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
>
>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
>
>

Yes Fred, that includes your Coco ;0
I'd really meant current machines but
as Fred notes, it has been going on for
a number of years and it is going on
today.
Dwight