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jones@bach (Clark Jones) says:

> Many years ago, I heard of one chap in the UK who could not afford an EPROM
> eraser, so he would mail his EPROMs, along with return postage, to his
> friend in Belfast.  The EPROMs would return blank.  The tale speaks, if true,
> (a) of the agressiveness of the x-ray equipment that the Royal Post Office
> was using for screening packages and (b) the rather leakyness of the floating

I find this a little hard to believe.  I recall reading about x-ray erasure
of plastic-encapsulated EPROM's in an old Intel memory design handbook, and
I believe the figure they quoted was 100 rads.