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echo: cis.os9.68000.osk
to: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)
from: Zack Sessions 71532,1555
date: 1993-10-31 09:34:39
subject: #19224-MM1-68340

#: 19225 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    31-Oct-93  09:34:39
Sb: #19224-MM1-68340
Fm: Zack Sessions 71532,1555
To: John R. Wainwright 72517,676 (X)

 > under the lid -- the chip NOW in U18 is marked CPL16L8 25NC.  Is that the
 > one you got in the mail?

Yes.

 > Back in my TV repairman days, I used to blast chips with "FREON" to cool
 > them when I suspected heat-related intermittent problems.  That's an EPA
 > "NO-NO" now, I don't know what technique current techs are using (ice
 > cubes in little plastic bags, maybe?) (GRIN).

I'm sure that you can get something which is environmentally safe which would
cool down a chip. And don't laugh about you "ice cubes in a little plastic bag"
comment. Art Flexsor (ADOS) reported a long time ago on Delphi that that is the
very technique he used once to track down an overheating GIME!!!

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