Has anyone thought that maybe the 'welded shut' was a figure of speech? No one says that box was 'closed tightly' or 'taped up real good' they say 'welded shut'. Even so, wouldn't they simply just weld the inside metal chassis? That wouldn't make it any different then it is, other than you can't open it. It wouldn't all of a suddend become a lightning magnet or need to be grounded a certain way.
all they would have had to have done was put a couple 2" strips of solder on the door of the case with the outcome being that the "case was welded shut", period. Done it myself on electronic equipment along with epoxying the circuit board (with inert red epoxy) after wiping the numbers from the chips on the board.
<strong>Has anyone thought that maybe the 'welded shut' was a figure of speech? </strong><hr></blockquote>
If you go back through the thread tha guy that originally said "welded shut" conceded that "his source" said "sealed", which is a totally different thing.
I'm pretty sure Jaguar wasn't the 88000. I think it was designed completely in house, while the 88000 was a Moto job. Pink wasn't the OS for the Jaguar. It was the replacement for OS 7 that morphed into taligent. It would have needed porting to be used on Jaguar (which is a testament to the bloat in Apple at the time).
Piltdown Man was the code name for the low-end powermac (6100). The 7100 was Carl Sagan, BHA, and LAW. And the 8100 was Cold Fusion.
I don't have my copy of that terrible "Apple" book by the WSJ reporter to double check, but i'm pretty sure that neither Cognac, or Tesseract saw the light of day either.
They dont understand this, and even if they do, they're so intent on keeping the position they already took that they will continue to argue the fact.</strong><hr></blockquote>
And like you do? You can't even make up your mind whether what you were told about, that you never saw, actually was "welded" or not:
[quote]Previously posted by TommyBrando:
<strong>I assume its welded because the absolute was that you couldn't get into the case (with a rediculous amount of trouble, but the none of the people that have them are that interested in whats inside.)</strong><hr></blockquote>
I don't doubt that cases can be soldered together, but that's neither that strong not "welding".
There's far easier ways of doing things.
And besides anything else no one here can say they've actually seen one of these things.
I don't doubt that cases can be soldered together, but that's neither that strong not "welding".
There's far easier ways of doing things.
And besides anything else no one here can say they've actually seen one of these things.
So BOLLOCKS!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Silver solder is stronger than welding in some applications (I have soldered 60,000 psi equipment together). But it is not a matter of strength when welding sensitive equipment together, it has to do with being able to determine if someone has opened the case (which would most likely trigger consequences in their NDA).
The term "Cases were welded shut" no doubt relates to the fact that the cases were sealed to the point that damage to the case would arise from opening it.
So what part of "Cases Were Welded Shut" don't you understand?
<strong>Piltdown Man was the code name for the low-end powermac (6100). The 7100 was Carl Sagan, BHA, and LAW. And the 8100 was Cold Fusion.
I don't have my copy of that terrible "Apple" book by the WSJ reporter to double check, but i'm pretty sure that neither Cognac, or Tesseract saw the light of day either.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'm pretty sure that Cognac was the project that led to the first PowerMacs--or at least, that's what Steven Levy seems to think. I've known about the code names for a long time, but I think Cognac referred to the actual project that led up to PDM, BHA/LAW, and Cold Fusion, not to the actual machines themselves.
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my 2¢ anyways
<strong>I heard Pixar had one they were using to render stuff on. Don't know for sure if it is true.</strong><hr></blockquote>
bull...
<strong>Has anyone thought that maybe the 'welded shut' was a figure of speech? </strong><hr></blockquote>
If you go back through the thread tha guy that originally said "welded shut" conceded that "his source" said "sealed", which is a totally different thing.
Piltdown Man was the code name for the low-end powermac (6100). The 7100 was Carl Sagan, BHA, and LAW. And the 8100 was Cold Fusion.
I don't have my copy of that terrible "Apple" book by the WSJ reporter to double check, but i'm pretty sure that neither Cognac, or Tesseract saw the light of day either.
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They dont understand this, and even if they do, they're so intent on keeping the position they already took that they will continue to argue the fact.</strong><hr></blockquote>
And like you do? You can't even make up your mind whether what you were told about, that you never saw, actually was "welded" or not:
[quote]Previously posted by TommyBrando:
<strong>I assume its welded because the absolute was that you couldn't get into the case (with a rediculous amount of trouble, but the none of the people that have them are that interested in whats inside.)</strong><hr></blockquote>
I don't doubt that cases can be soldered together, but that's neither that strong not "welding".
There's far easier ways of doing things.
And besides anything else no one here can say they've actually seen one of these things.
So BOLLOCKS!
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I don't doubt that cases can be soldered together, but that's neither that strong not "welding".
There's far easier ways of doing things.
And besides anything else no one here can say they've actually seen one of these things.
So BOLLOCKS!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Silver solder is stronger than welding in some applications (I have soldered 60,000 psi equipment together). But it is not a matter of strength when welding sensitive equipment together, it has to do with being able to determine if someone has opened the case (which would most likely trigger consequences in their NDA).
The term "Cases were welded shut" no doubt relates to the fact that the cases were sealed to the point that damage to the case would arise from opening it.
So what part of "Cases Were Welded Shut" don't you understand?
<strong>Piltdown Man was the code name for the low-end powermac (6100). The 7100 was Carl Sagan, BHA, and LAW. And the 8100 was Cold Fusion.
I don't have my copy of that terrible "Apple" book by the WSJ reporter to double check, but i'm pretty sure that neither Cognac, or Tesseract saw the light of day either.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'm pretty sure that Cognac was the project that led to the first PowerMacs--or at least, that's what Steven Levy seems to think. I've known about the code names for a long time, but I think Cognac referred to the actual project that led up to PDM, BHA/LAW, and Cold Fusion, not to the actual machines themselves.