[sdiy] Those darned Casio chips rant

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 24 November 2004 02:40 pm, Rainer Buchty wrote:
> >My nominee for 'company of the year' is Korg... who shared the Keio-35
> >IC schematic and test documents with Martin Czech (for our
> >enlightenment).
>
> I once tried to convince Kawai that they send me the logic equations of
> those two CK2605 PLAs inside the K3m. Just wanted to spare me
> desoldering them and reading them out myself (they can't be protected
> like modern ones). Also the table EPROMs are soldered in, a dump would
> be great.
>
> The answer was like "uhm, we don't have it ourselves, but it would be
> great if you could share your knowledge with us once you read it out"
> and "don't worry, we have plenty of replacement CPU boards for $80 a
> piece".
>
> I'm still unsure whether I find this hilarious or frightening.
>
> Rainer

They probably *don't* have that info -- the support people you're going to be 
able to talk to are with those folks who are doing the importing,  and 
nowhere near the folks who are doing the design and such,  probably they 
don't even know who those folks are.  And the executive types are not going 
to let that info get out unless they can see some benefit to doing so.  Which 
doesn't strike me as being too likely given the exceedingly narrow context 
within which much of that corporate culture operates.