Superchips

[sdbartho at cca.rockwell.com]

>From: pjwales at magicnet.magicnet.net(Peter Wales)

Apologies for prolonging this, but I felt it needed to be said.

> I'm not going into
> the ethics of what we did. People are happy to tell me I should not have
> charged $350 for the conversion but are quite happy that I should charge
> $350 for a $1 EPROM.

Most people know (at least the folks on this list) that it's not the EPROM
you're paying for, but the engineering of the contents. Since you did not
alter the contents of the EEPROM, what exactly _was_ the customer paying
for? A $10 bleeder valve? OK. Fine. If you can get $350 for a $10 bleeder,
have at it- caveat emptor. But recieving an ECM from a customer, slapping
a sticker on it that said it was reprogrammed, and sending it back is out-
right fraud. There are many things you could have done that would have been
orders of magnitude more ethical, but you didn't. You chose the easy, more
profitable way, thinking no one will ever know. But you got caught, and
now you pay the price of dragging your reputation with you wherever you go.

> So, on to happier things. We do produce correctly developed cchips here and
> no computers leave here unmodified with claims for anything else,

Or so we hope. How can we be sure?

> I cannot say that I will not commercialise on ideas I pick up from
> here. That would be insulting your intelligence, but lets face it, what can
> you guys give an engine reprogrammer? That's not what this list is about is
> it?

On the contrary, there have been a number of articles posted concerning
PROM hacking- interesting and possibly valuable information. I seriously
doubt such information will be passed as freely as it was in the past. 

> If the questions do crop up, I'm probably more likely to have the
> answers, and give them to you, than to take them from you. But you're all
> clever guys and I don't profess to know it all so maybe I can learn
> something.

Would you really divulge your info on reprogramming chips for all the world
to see? It would earn some points in your favor, but you have a long way
to go in order to regain a good reputation.
 
> 
> I hope I have established my credentials once again.

One burnt offering to the Merkur list, and you're right as rain again?
Make the Talon/Eclipse guys happy. Then we'll talk.


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Scott D. Bartholomay - Embedded Systems Programming - 777 EDMS Displays
Rockwell International, Collins Air Transport Division, Cedar Rapids IA
         sdbartho at hwking.cca.rockwell.com - (319)395-4498
       These opinions are not that of Rockwell Intl. or CATD.
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