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48G Destructive Teardown - EEVblog
05-20-2017, 03:18 PM
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48G Destructive Teardown - EEVblog
Fast-forward to 9:40.



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05-20-2017, 03:46 PM
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Dave's in like Flynn. Winner Winner, chicken dinner!
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05-22-2017, 05:51 PM
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RE: 48G Destructive Teardown - EEVblog
There are much less destructive ways to open an HP 48 and leave it still quite usable.

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05-22-2017, 11:52 PM
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(05-22-2017 05:51 PM)Han Wrote:  There are much less destructive ways to open an HP 48 and leave it still quite usable.

Unless Dave is trying to repair something, he doesn't take a lot of pains to keep the disassembly reversible. The 48 he took apart was one he was sent in a non-working state, as he couldn't bear to open up the previous one he received which was in nice shape.
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05-23-2017, 01:52 AM
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The other oddity about that calculator was the jumper between ROM and RAM chip. The calculator presumably got upgraded to 128KB, but such an upgrade never required anything more than a RAM chip replacement.

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05-23-2017, 02:34 AM
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(05-23-2017 01:52 AM)Han Wrote:  The other oddity about that calculator was the jumper between ROM and RAM chip. The calculator presumably got upgraded to 128KB, but such an upgrade never required anything more than a RAM chip replacement.

That jumper is on one of the address lines which would suggest a broken land on the board probably from removal of the original chip, but I think a shorter wire could have been used.

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05-23-2017, 05:30 AM
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The labelling on the ROM is unlike any I've seen.

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05-23-2017, 07:58 PM
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RE: 48G Destructive Teardown - EEVblog
(05-23-2017 01:52 AM)Han Wrote:  The other oddity about that calculator was the jumper between ROM and RAM chip. The calculator presumably got upgraded to 128KB, but such an upgrade never required anything more than a RAM chip replacement.

In the video he said that the original owner damaged a pad when doing the upgrade, so that's probably why there's a jumper wire. I also got the impression that the upgrader didn't know what he was doing 20 years ago when he did the upgrade, which is why it looks like a complete mess during the teardown (just look at the faceplate).
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