what is a clone

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:42:23 +0000
From: Roger Mayer <[email protected]>
Subject: How to obtain cloning information to make accurate analysis ref: EMP's exhibit.
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Dear Sgt Pepper,
Here is some more information I believe will answer your questions about
what is a clone or copy and the method needed to extract the info
required to make such a copy. Please feel free to post it up on the web
for me.
EMP has confirmed to me over the telephone that nobody has been ever
been allowed to remove the breadboard circuit card from their Octavio
unit to examine the underside of the card. This would be necessary to
confirm the circuit layout.
Once the layout was confirmed it would be then necessary to remove
separate components for electrical analysis. Dismantling the circuit
would make the Octavio unit non original and lessen its value. The unit
was hand wired by me by bending wires and directly soldering the
components to each other and removing them and then replacing them would
be a hazardous task and impossible to guarantee than they would be
replaced in exactly the same manner without harming the components not
to mention destroy the original value of their example. I measured all
the transistors and selected them individually, the capacitors as well
especially the electrolytics as they had huge tolerances then. An
accurate value could not be obtained today from the old electrolytics on
the breadboard due to deterioration by the drying out of the
electrolyte. The transformer would also have to be removed for
inspection as this too was a commercial version and had large
production variations . As you can appreciate it's not any easy task to
clone anything without actually being the actual owner to assume
responsibility by taking it apart and then risk ruining it for eternity.
The analysis would have to be done have to be done under laboratory
conditions with sophisticated measurement equipment. This would involve
some considerable time and risk.
Of course anybody with EMP's permission could measure the dimensions of
the Octavio unit and take pictures of the inside but would they know
what they were looking at without the detailed analysis method described
above. They could then go onto the web, search for Tycobrahe Octavia and
following the schematic diagram with it's inaccuracies produce a wedged
shaped box that is a COPY of the exhibit with the wrong insides.
This has been years ago done by Tycobrahe to produce a bad copy and
quite naturally why would I educate anybody as to their mistakes when
they had indeed made an unauthorised copy and infringed on my
intellectual property and copyright.
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Kindest regards,
Roger Mayer
http://www.roger-mayer.co.uk
"experience the difference"