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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Core memory
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Date: 21 Jul 88 22:25:02 GMT
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>                                             EEPROMS are, I believe,
>too sensitive to large, powerful cosmic rays that tend to buzz around up there.

Somewhat afield, I guess, unless we include ai, but if semiconductors can be
fried by the radiation, what happens to humans?