[Coco] 30 years...time flies

[Bill Gunshannon]

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From: Coco [coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] on behalf of Gene Heskett [gheskett at shentel.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 11:34 AM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] 30 years...time flies

On Wednesday 22 March 2017 11:07:35 Dave Philipsen wrote:

> Bit rot with EPROMs? I'll have to hear the story on that one! 😂
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> Dave

I've had it happen. Took years though.  Whomever programmed it didn't put
a sticker on the window, and it was in a well lit, daylight FL room with
a vented cover the light could shine right thru.

I've erased them on purpose by putting them out in the sun for 10 days or
so too.

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Trust me, they will do it in the dark sealed inside their devices, too.
It's what happened to my DECTalk box.  Took the EPROMS out and tried 
to verif ythem against HEX files using my programmer and none of them
verified.  EPROMS were still good as I was able to erase and reprogram
them.

EPROMs are as permanent as putting something on the Web.  :-)

bill