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From: agodwin@acorn.co.uk (Adrian Godwin)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: EPROM erasers
Keywords: EPROM, eraser, strobe, flash
Message-ID: <5168@acorn.co.uk>
Date: 14 Feb 91 13:43:53 GMT
References: <5001@acorn.co.uk> <16131@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Feb10.021307.10532@uhura.neoucom.EDU>
Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, UK
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In article <1991Feb10.021307.10532@uhura.neoucom.EDU> wtm@uhura.neoucom.EDU (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>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.

This is why I wondered whether a photographic tube (rather than a special UV tube) 
might work. I've heard a number of variations on the story, often indicating that
the machine crashed (due to mis-reading data) rather than suffering permanent
washout.

-adrian


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Adrian Godwin                                        (agodwin@acorn.co.uk)