IC reverse engineering and other adventures

What weighs 865 lbs, is probably older than me, and has a radiation trefoil on it?  Its our friend the ISI Super IIIA, at last sitting in my...

Almost reached the one year mark without posting, but haven't been idle.  Since my last post I've: Better at lapping Purchased a ...

I recently had to get through a number of samples which I wasn't that worried about damaging.  This gave me a chance to try something a ...

I played a bit before with using a lapping machine by "hand".  Here's a picture of the setup: Basically I press a die aga...