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Article #15597"The Glob" Atari 2600 processors ???
From: Rich"TheMan"Kennehan
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:45
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:45
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Hi. I opened up one of my atari 2600 games, and instead of a regular chip inside, there was this small plastic glob where the ROM chip should be!!!! what is this? It was black and looked like a big bump of solder. How is this possible for a black glob of plastic with no pins to be able to store information? The black glob was like melted into the center of the PC board...and the game worked perfectly when I put it back together again. Any help figuring out this mystery would be greatly appreciated!! - Rich kennehra@logic.camp.clarkson.edu
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!clarkson!kennehra From: kennehra@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Rich"TheMan"Kennehan) Subject: "The Glob" Atari 2600 processors ??? Message-ID: <kennehra.724560313@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> Sender: news@news.clarkson.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: logic.camp.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:45:13 GMT Lines: 14