Re: Scary looking hardware mod to V20?

["Bill Moy" <billmoy@xxxxxxxxx>]

HaH haa!  Geez! I really enjoyed that for the first time: your babelfish
translation service link.  I run into lots of Japanese websites when I'm
surfing for palmtop info, where I usually succumb to being satisfied just to
view their pictures or get a printout of their autoexec.bat or config.sys.
This is really great!  Thanks for posting this.  Now, I will get a
translation of some of the sites as I no-longer need to find a Japanese
drinking-buddy who is into palmtops -a rarity in New York.  -Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: <jack@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <sharp-pc3k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 4:41 PM
Subject: Scary looking hardware mod to V20?


> While poking around with the Altavista search engine, I found this web
site:
>
> http://www.fastnet.ne.jp/~tosihara/smocom/pc3kaizo.htm
>
> I went to http://babelfish.altavista.com and plugged in the URL and
selected
> Japanese -> English.
>
> It looks like a page with an experimental modification to replace the
80C88
> with a V20 chip.  The very thought of having to build up the little
nestlike
> cluster of jumper wires to bridge to the new CPU looks downright scary.
> This hobbyist must have the steady hands of a surgeon...  I wish that the
> site had more pictures.
>
> Jack
>