| ??? 07/18/06 15:11 Read: times |
#120488 - a 'legal' example Responding to: ???'s previous message |
A company I worked for has a number of machines with an internal 100 wire bus.
The company had a maintenance agreement and thus posessed all documentation for this machine. The machines were getting a bit old in the tooth as to the capability to handle newer data foremats. The prez of the company consulted lawyers and the task I got was: make the necessary hardware and software to replace the ancient micro loicated on one of the 100 pin boards with a PC without seeing ANY documentation for the machine So I made a board that could read or write the pins on the bus, configured it as a locic analyzer, put it in an empty slot and started running. Eventually the analysis gace me enough info to drive the bus with the desired results. This entire process was deemed legal by lawyers specializing in such. Erik |
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| Anyone interested in a 80C537 bounty? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Additional Requirements | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Obsolete ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Reverse engineering | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| a 'legal' example | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Yes, legal but ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| But then | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Maybe | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I once was that layman | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| weird | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I never said it was illegal | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
and I am curious | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| to whomever may be interested | 01/01/70 00:00 |