Interesting '89 Calibrator...

[Jason Haines]

At 12:41 AM 8/26/99 +0000, you wrote:
>The aftermarket chip that was in my Iroc had a "special" set of 
>jumpers under it that I think re-mapped the address pins so of the prom was 
>removed and placed in a reader.. it would come up garbage. it kinda 
>would zebra stripe the data when viewed. These little tricks are all 
>pretty cool stuff to me - being still bright-eyed and all. 
>

The chip wouldn't happen to have been painted gold or had a "smiley face"
on it? If so, it is probably a Jim Formoto chip. I think he does this to
all of his chips. I think Jim used to work for TPIS or ASM and now does
chips on his own down in Florida.


Jason