Citations:prechipped

English citations of prechipped

Adjective: "(of consumer goods) having a piece or pieces broken or flaked off at the time of acquisition"

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• 1988 — Bryan Miller, "Restaurants", New York Times, 30 December 1988:

  Add to this a so-hip-it-hurts Neo-Classical design, complete with prechipped wall moldings and faux weathered columns, and you have all the trappings of yet another Upper West Side gastronomic Pompeii.

• 1994 — Amy Spindler, "Seeing a City in the Windows of Its Shops", New York Times, 6 March 1994:

  Here are prechipped, prescratched treasures -- medicine chests, porcelain dishes, canisters -- as if we are too impatient today to wear out our belongings ourselves.

• 2002 July 31, Pete, “Re: Schwinn Bikes in Walmart”, in rec.bicycles.misc‎^[1] (Usenet):

  And then we come to the flagship, the Mongoose XR-100. $149 of rompin, stompin 7005 alu. 45 lbs, prechipped chrome, alloy wheels, and the bar ends in vertical, core sample attitude.

Adjective: "(of a video game console, DVD player, etc.) coming with a modchip preinstalled"

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• 1999 July 15, PMCMODCHIPS, “NEW CHIPPED PSX FOR SALE”, in alt.games.sony-playstation‎^[2] (Usenet):

  Brand new 9002 model playstation prechipped with stealth coded chip

• 1999 October 26, Arron Ludlam, “Re: Sammy ALternative”, in uk.media.dvd‎^[3] (Usenet):

  Ok i have done a little more research on this and it seems I am down to too^[sic] choices available prechipped from a very reuptable^[sic] supplier.

• 2000 June 12, David Given, “Re: DVD players”, in rec.arts.sf.composition‎^[4] (Usenet):

  All the mail order people will sell you prechipped players, under warrenty even.

• 2000 June 17, Dave Harrington, “Re: Why bother with Multi-region?”, in uk.media.dvd‎^[5] (Usenet):

  If the player you want needs a hardware mod, make sure you buy it prechipped, otherwise you'll pay more in the end - as well as giving the shop the impression people don't mind them limiting their choice of film.

• 2000 September 27, Richard Powell, “Philips DVD711 - Region Free?!?!”, in uk.media.dvd‎^[6] (Usenet):

  I bought the player in shitty old Dixons so it certainly hasn't been prechipped.

• 2001 December 13, -=Ox-E-Genated=- [username], “-=Messiah=-”, in uk.games.video.playstation.forsale‎^[7] (Usenet):

  Does anyone in here know of anyone^[sic] i can buy a prechipped Playstation 2 (new and boxed, opened only for chipping) with the messiah modchip?

• 2002 June 16, spurs4ever [username], “Re: HELP NEEDED PS2 CHIP”, in uk.games.video.playstation.forsale‎^[8] (Usenet):

  (And no its^[sic] not my site, but I have bought a prechipped PS2 in the past from him).

• 2002 September 4, switchblade [username], “Re: Chipping your Xbox”, in uk.games.video.xbox‎^[9] (Usenet):

  No you are not in the minority... I have just order^[sic] a prechipped xbox with the intention of playing mame, snes9x etc on my TV rather than the computer monitor... can't wait til it arrives.

• 2002 December 28, Gary, “Re: XBOX Disassembly”, in uk.games.video.xbox‎^[10] (Usenet):

  Thanks for that edd, but I have now had a change of heart, my brother wants an XBOX, so I am going to sell him mine and buy a prechipped XBOX to save a possible knackerd^[sic] console!