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Subject: RE: Soldered-in ROMs: 20/20 hindsight
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.102140.46997@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 16:21:39 GMT
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In article <9CA71B286000016D@gacvx2.gac.edu>, TDSTRONG%MTUS5.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Tim Strong) writes:
> Doesn't that mean the 5 or 10 years in the future your EEPROM might not be
> readable anymore??????  Thats what I always though, however I haven't
> gotten far enough in my studies to confirm that belief.

For that matter, EPROMs only last about 10 years. And, given that OTP EPROMs
(EPROMs without a window; therefore not eraseable) are a lot cheaper than
mask-programmed ROMs, they're being stuffed into just about everything. Ten
years from now, a lot of things are going to mysteriously fail.

We've had a TI printer suffer from EPROM leakage; never got it back up.
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