Duffy shoved his hand into the depths of the console to seat the pair of replacement chips.

He slipped Dnnys a replacement chip and watched as the readings on the wall panels fluttered to new settings.

It may still be two months or more before replacement chips are widely available.

Even before today's announcement, the company had already committed itself to shipping tens of thousands of replacement chips.

"Here you go," Eileen said, coming down level with him, and handed him the replacement chips.

The company said it evaluated requests for replacement chips on a case-by-case basis.

The replacement chips are beginning to trickle into the market and are expected to be available in larger volumes in the next month or so.

Esmay explained about the nav computer, the need to patch a replacement chip from one of the missile-control units.

A black shroud was placed over the table until replacement chips were brought in.

Not too long ago, Quikdata had sold me a fairly obscure replacement chip.