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@Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:13:21 CDT
Subject: Re: Athlon markings?
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** Reply to note from David Wei  Fri, 31 Oct
2003 23:44:38 +0800 
 
David, 
   
> Well, that's silicon's natural color (plus polish), the color of the
printing is whatever 
> color the material will display after there's some miniature
explosion... (well, low power, 
> highly focused laser can do that...) :) Same thing goes for that black
block on the CPU 
> substrates...  
 
Went out at lunch, and now I *have* seen one... a Barton 3000+. It had a
tan substrate, altho a   
lighter tan than the ones I have around here. The label is indeed black
(there was no doubt you   
were correct) with white lettering. The top of the die is unique too, in my
experience... it has   
sort of a reddish tint, speckled with gold flakes! There are no markings on
it, save what appears   
under a 3x magnifier to be some sort of Chinese character surrounded by a
square. Wish I'd had   
access to a higher power magnifier!  I'll try to check later.  
 
Anyway, I'm *still* glad to see that the information isn't on a sticker! :^) 
 
Steve 
 
 




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