Intel 8008: 3000+ gates

Georgi Guninski guninski at guninski.com
Sun Dec 25 00:31:36 PST 2016


On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 02:07:58PM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> http://www.righto.com/2016/12/die-photos-and-analysis-of_24.html
> 
> Ancient chip, still not a complete reverse engineering.

Likely the former Eastern block (USSR etc) completely reversed a lot of
electronics and computers. From experience, certain east european
country made very good clonings of Apple II (8 bit) under the name
Pravetz 8* (Правец 8*). AFAIK I know, the CPU chips were eastern too.

Haven't seen this personally, but one reversing approach was to "peel"
the chip, taking snapshots. The western capitalists learnt this and
placed explosives in the chips, which went boom at peeling. Don't know
the end of this story.




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