Re: I X-Rayed my Apple IIe

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Grant Stockly" <grant@stockly.com> wrote in message 1167347657.200472.40280@79g2000cws.googlegroups.com">news:1167347657.200472.40280@79g2000cws.googlegroups.com...
: In preparation for cutting my Apple IIe motherboard
: in half I decided it would help to have an x-ray of
: the board.  This way it will be easy to determine the
: most efficient cut line.
:
: I included an X-Ray of a Disk II card just for fun.
:
: The X-Rays are at 300dpi.  I'm not an X-Ray tech so
: my calibration was a little off.  Our resident X-ray
: guy is gone today. I'm not sure he would be interested
: in an Apple IIe motherboard any way.  ; )  Some areas
: are dark.  By adjusting "Levels" in photoshop you can
: bring them out.
:
: The motherboard received a dose rate of 17.84 R/min
: for the scans and calibration.  About 27 minutes (for
: 3 scans and a calibration).  This would have been a
: dose of 482 Rad.
:
: The Disk II card received the same dose rate, but it
: was in the vault for the whole time the motherboard
: was in there. It received radiation for a total of
: about 32 minutes.  571 Rad.
:
: To put it in perspective, if a group of people were
: exposed to that dose 50-90% would die after 30 days.
: (90% without intensive medical care).  Primary cause
: of death is internal bleeding and infections.
: Females become sterile.
:
: Motherboard:
: http://www.stockly.com/images2/061228-Apple_II_80kv6ma35ms36SFD-Cut%20Edges.jpg
:
: Disk II:
: http://www.stockly.com/images2/061228-Disk_II_80kv6ma35ms36SFD-Cut%20Edges.jpg
:
: Any comments?
:
: Grant

This is cool. Too bad they weren't bare boards
when they were run through.

As far as cutting the board straight through,
I don't see it happening. You'll need to route
it back and forth a couple places, but, there
is one area that you could get away with it.
Either just in front of the slot row, or just
behind the Chargen/Ram row.

William Garber
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