On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:11:25 +0100, William Black
 wrote:

>AlanG wrote:
>> On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:42:25 +0100, William Black
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> Fredxx wrote:
>>>> "William Black"  wrote in message 
>>>> news:h5gr1c$rsn$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>>>> AlanG wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> That is often the case. I have repaired many motherboards over the
>>>>>> last 20 years
>>>>> That is an incredibly sad statement.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Perhaps he's saying he's changed a few batteries.
>>> No,  I think he's talking about changing chips,  something nobody has 
>>> done since about 1980...
>>>
>>> I used to work in a factory in 1983,  making small microprocessor boards 
>>> for the gambling industry, and we never bothered changing flow soldered 
>>> surface-mount chips even back then.  It's just not economic...
>> 
>> It is when a piece of kit costs up to 7000. 
>
>"A piece of kit"!.
>
>What a quaint term.
>
>The reality is the the Rockwell AIM 65 that we used as a basis for our 
>products cost about £250 a unit.
>
>The only reason we made our own was because they were cheaper.
>
>>> Even in the mid 'seventies factories were flying faulty stuff in bulk to 
>>> India to be mended because it wasn't economic to mend them in the UK...
>> 
>> Don't be silly. It would have been binned. 
>
>Not when you're sending hundreds.
>
>You've no idea about how big the microelectronics business was back then 
>have you.

Yes.
We used to sell to Mitsubishi