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A time when cabling was not so much 'structured' than 'survival of the fittest'

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Oh

I remember using a screwdriver to lever EEPROM chips out of their sockets when developing software for SBCs in the early 1980s. Never had a problem until the "pre-production, limited issue" DEC board which I discovered, slightly late, had a resistor or similar located under the EEPROM.

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