[Beryllium Oxide] or Synth-DOA

[Paul Perry]

At 03:58 PM 29/05/99 +0200, Daniel.Schouten wrote:

>What about grinding off typenumbers of IC's? What material are most
>'plastic' IC's made of? I've removed lot's of typenumbers from IC's
>over the years using a small grinding tool. 

.err... don't you know that grinding the numbers off ICs just encourages
EEs to reverse engineer things? Like a friend who does jigsaw puzzles 
upside down.. Didn't someone say that REAL bastards print a false 
chip number on top?

It's only a kind of epoxy. Pretty harmless compared to submicron deisel
carbon particles, for example, and you've breathed plenty of these reading 
this..
>
paul perry Melbourne Australia

BTW, knifegrinders in Sheffield last century died at 40 on average..
this was considered by some as an act of Providence, supplying jobs for 
the next generation.. it was grinding wheel dust that did them in..