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From: Desk Rabbit
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:58

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On 15/12/2011 09:49, John Williamson wrote:
> 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.
>
Or you could just leave them on a sunny windowsill ;-)

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