A) Real men don't build a circuit with an 14Mhz ATmega, when a couple of 555's and a few TTL counters would have sufficed.
B) Real men don't program micro-controllers in C (or, god forbid, BASIC), when a hundred or so assembly instructions would have sufficed.
C) Real men don't give their wives goofy hand-made electronic crap on Valentine's Day, because they know their wives will figuratively and possibly literally beat the shit out of them thus belying that whole 'real man' thing.
wouldn't it be pretty straightforward to replace the hardware circuit
The chip foundry has what is essentially a picture of patterns to be etched onto a piece of silicon. Making substantive changes to the chip by modifying the mask is, I suspect, similar in scope to removing the vocals from an mp3 by modifying it with a hex editor.
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A) Real men don't build a circuit with an 14Mhz ATmega, when a couple of 555's and a few TTL counters would have sufficed.
B) Real men don't program micro-controllers in C (or, god forbid, BASIC), when a hundred or so assembly instructions would have sufficed.
C) Real men don't give their wives goofy hand-made electronic crap on Valentine's Day, because they know their wives will figuratively and possibly literally beat the shit out of them thus belying that whole 'real man' thing.
The same company that came up with this embarrassing moment a few years back.
In a related story, Mitch Bainwol has been called as Lori Drew's first character witness.
... Sarah Conner will be swinging by later.
wouldn't it be pretty straightforward to replace the hardware circuit
The chip foundry has what is essentially a picture of patterns to be etched onto a piece of silicon. Making substantive changes to the chip by modifying the mask is, I suspect, similar in scope to removing the vocals from an mp3 by modifying it with a hex editor.