Purposefully fudged schematics (was: Wire Rope ROMs (Was: back to the AGC, was Re: TTL 7400's Available))

[Richard]

In article <B9639BAE3F34504E83FEEDD71D4AFB460A660A at mail.bensene.com>,
    "Rick Bensene" <rickb at bensene.com>  writes:

> [...]  Wang is also
> famous for purposefully putting errors into published schematics to
> throw off competitors who would use such schematics to reverse-engineer
> how the machines work. [...]

Wow, I'd never heard that story before.  Interesting!

How many other companies did this back when schematics were pretty
much leaving the machine laying naked in front of you?
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