Tom Walker wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

->  JH> Back in the earlier thread, I had written that I burned up a 
->  JH> high-speed drill bit trying to drill some of those things out from
->  JH> an IBM power supply.

-> IBM again.  That's where I last remember encountering those.

 TW>  Compaq has used Torx Screws almost exclusevely in their Computers
 TW> for many, Many years. 

Yeah,  the ones I have here use 'em.  But not the tamper-proof kind.

 TW> I jsut picked up a coupld of Deskpro Pent II 400 Mhz systems and 
 TW> they are still there. Incidently they use both Metric and USS 
 TW> screws. Teh Metric ones are black in color and US S ones are 
 TW> Silver. And most Compaq systems I have worked with(400 Hhz
 TW> or slower systems) have Spares of both types provided inside the
 TW> case.

That torx stuff comes in metric too?  Jeez...

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