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Article #10043Re: EPROM erasers
From: Bill Mayhew
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 1991 02:13
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 1991 02:13
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An associate I used to work with told me about an incident at a trade show where a vendor had a prototype board with untaped windows on the firmware EPROMs. A trade paper photographer snapped a picutre, the flash of which trashed the contents of the EPROMs, causing much embarassment for the vendor who was left with a braindead product. ==Bill= -- Bill Mayhew NEOUCOM Computer Services Department Rootstown, OH 44272-9995 USA phone: 216-325-2511 wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu ....!uunet!aablue!neoucom!wtm via internet: (140.220.001.001)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU!neoucom.edu!wtm From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.EDU (Bill Mayhew) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: EPROM erasers Keywords: EPROM, eraser, strobe, flash Message-ID: <1991Feb10.021307.10532@uhura.neoucom.EDU> Date: 10 Feb 91 02:13:07 GMT References: <5001@acorn.co.uk> <16131@milton.u.washington.edu> Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Lines: 15