Re: Possibly the weirdest Tempest problem yet.

Before eBay, Duke University (and Medical Center) used to have a store where
they sold all their surplus property kinds of electronics, etc. The longer
stuff sat there, the lower the prices went--something that started at $2000
might eventually sell for $200.

I would stick my head in whenever I was going by, and would often find
interesting equipment that had been disabled in non-obvious but simple
ways--control panel disconnected, fuse missing, etc. I think people were
hoping other buyers wouldn't notice, and they could snap the equipment up
after it got down to the final discounted value.

I think the same sort of thing happens pretty often at game auctions.

On Dec 7, 2007 1:08 PM, Matt Rossiter <matt@rossiters.com> wrote:

> I just finished fixing a box of Tempest boards this week that I had
> sitting around for a long time. I came across one that had some miserable
> problems with the Mathbox. After careful inspection I noticed someone cut
> the +5v legs of most of the IC's on the board!! Someone actually went
> though the trouble of RUINING a tempest board. I'm happy to say I bridged
> all those cut legs with a clean solder bridge and repaired the main board
> and it's back in business.
>
> Has anyone else had to fix a deliberate sabotage? :)
>
> Matt
>

-- 
Heath Roberts
htroberts@gmail.com
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