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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by imhoguy on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @05:17AM (#34690906)
I recall consumer CPUs and some pencil mark bridging trick to upgrade them around that time too.
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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by littlecranky67 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @05:22AM (#34690932)
Those were the Pentium II, 233-333Mhz were all identical and could be pencil unlocked
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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by actionfromafar on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @06:27AM (#34691352)
IIRC some AMD too.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AMD_Athlon_Pencil_Tr...

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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by andy_ppp on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @08:56AM (#34692745)
This probably sold a lot of extra CPUs.
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Re:HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card... by snozolli on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @09:09AM (#34692897)
Not the same time frame, but it reminded me of the hack to make consumer GeForce Nvidia cards appear to be their overpriced, professional, Quadro counterparts:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/general-computing/hacking-nvid...

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