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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
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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=


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