[Coco] 30 years...time flies

Dave Philipsen dave at davebiz.com
Wed Mar 22 12:40:39 EDT 2017


Ah, yes. Well the nice thing about it is you can just re-program them. I have a 2708 EPROM that is a least 35 years old...still going strong.

Dave Philipsen

> On Mar 22, 2017, at 10:34 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday 22 March 2017 11:07:35 Dave Philipsen wrote:
>> 
>> Bit rot with EPROMs? I'll have to hear the story on that one! 😂
>> 
>> Dave
> 
> I've had it happen. Took years though.  Whomever programmed it didn't put 
> a sticker on the window, and it was in a well lit, daylight FL room with 
> a vented cover the light could shine right thru.
> 
> I've erased them on purpose by putting them out in the sun for 10 days or 
> so too.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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