Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!upba!unocss!hdr!eric
From: eric@hdr.UUCP (Eric J. Johnson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: backwards eproms (was Re: New Technologies)
Message-ID: <194@hdr.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 88 15:45:06 GMT
References: <7944@sunybcs.UUCP> <2407@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <360@splut.UUCP> <10@ucsd.EDU> <2848@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1988Feb9.151701.6201@sq.uucp>
Reply-To: eric@hdr.UUCP (Eric J. Johnson)
Organization: Amperif Corporation.  Omaha, NE
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In article<1988Feb9.151701.6201@sq.uucp> ian@darwin.UUCP (Ian F. Darwin) writes:

	As I wrote on the same subject while reviewing an EPROM programmer
	from a small American company (in MicroSystems, sometime in '83 or '84):
	
	I also found out (without harming the board) what happens when you
	put in the correct EPROM, but insert it upside down.
	*The little light inside comes on.*
	You didn't know there was a little light inside an EPROM, did you?
	Well, there wasn't supposed to be, and it's not there anymore anyway!

Here we call that a "one-shot LED" :-)


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