old EPROMs (was Re: Long-Life battery and clock)

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1988 05:55

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Something that occurred to me in this discussion of hundred-year
electronics:  the nervous nellies who are claiming that the EPROMs
will fade in, say, seven years might be interested to know that utzoo's
front end (the 11/44 that used to be utzoo) boots every day from
EPROMs programmed ten years ago.
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SunOSish, adj:  requiring      |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
32-bit bug numbers.            | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: old EPROMs (was Re: Long-Life battery and clock)
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