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.
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"
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!
