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From: John Williamson
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:49

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Evan Platt wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:39:47 -0500, richard <member@newsguy.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Could someone of proper knowledge and intelligence enlighten me as to which
>> computers today use EPROM's?
> 
> About a dozen people 'of proper knowledge' already did school you,
> bullis.
> 
>> Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory.
>> One person is claiming that no computers today use them at all.
> 
> One person? Try about a dozen.
> 
>> But from what I gather from some research, EPROM's are rather common.
> 
> No, they aren't.
> 
Not common, but still in use, depending on your defnition of computer. 
I'm sitting here looking at one.

The Psion II and 3 series personal organisers from the late '80s/ early 
'90s used (Massive for the time up to 8 Megabyte) EPROMs for data 
storage, and Psion sold a special "formatter" for them, which is 
basically a UV tube in a box.

-- 
Tciao for Now!

John.

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