Re: Possibly the weirdest Tempest problem yet.

I second that, often on public auctions, especially bankrupcy ones, stuff is
hacked by friends of bankrupcy guy to have stuff in non working condition.
already got a Twilight Zone like that, nobody bidded on it because the
batteries were removed...( reset settings) and I got it for a price so low I
prefer ot telling it...

Kind regards
Mathieu

On Dec 7, 2007 7:35 PM, Heath Roberts <htroberts@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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