Aging eyesight, for one. For another, I don't like hacking up hardware. And there is not a lot of access, except from directly above, and lots of easily melted plastic nereby.
-John ============== > On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:16:57 -0700 (PDT) > "J. Forster" <j...@quikus.com> wrote: > >> I recently bought some clean IBM Thinkpads cheap with unknown Boot >> PassWords. There is a hack to access the existing PWs and rewrite them, >> but it requires connecting to an 8 pin SMT IC. >> >> I know several vendors make "Dip Clip" type devices for connection to >> such >> chips, but I'd like reccomendations on whose are really any good. > > What speaks against soldering some AWG30 wire onto the pins? > Usually thats nearly as fast as using a clip, but gives you much > better connection. Unless i have dozens of boards i have to connect > to, i usually use this instead of clips. > > > Attila Kinali > -- > The trouble with you, Shev, is you don't say anything until you've saved > up a whole truckload of damned heavy brick arguments and then you dump > them all out and never look at the bleeding body mangled beneath the heap > -- Tirin, The Dispossessed, U. Le Guin > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.