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   famfo (famfo@frogs.lgbt)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 08:20:38 JST famfo

   I've never been so happy to see broadcom (this is being hacked apart, physically) :riesifrogLove:

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     famfo (famfo@frogs.lgbt)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 08:20:44 JST famfo

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     What an amazing PCB

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     Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 08:23:32 JST Steve's Place

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     @famfo You wouldn't need to label everything if it was wave soldered. That's a hand-assembled board, it looks like. They had to let assemblers know which tiny hole is for which component. I'm quite familiar with the pop-sizzle-what's-that-smell effect.

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     famfo (famfo@frogs.lgbt)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 08:38:57 JST famfo

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     @steter god, hand soldering this PCB would be a nightmare, this is ~half a centimeter thick

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     Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 08:38:57 JST Steve's Place

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     @famfo I wrote the boot loader and drive controller for a wire-wrapped supercomputer. That thing was amazing. No additional layers required. Pins, pins, and more pins, all wire-wrapped. Those guys were going blind.

     The good old days!