Re: How to care for an old computer?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
news:Nm%Rb.25964$5D.12551@clgrps13...
: Bill Garber wrote:
: > What would cause a ROM to fail other than
: > material failure. What is bit rot? Do you mean
: > like with an eprom? Small amounts of light getting
: > in over many years eventually switching a 0 to 1?
: > Never had that happen.
: The orinal ROMs used in II+, IIe and so forth I'm not really
worried
: about. EPROMs are a different story. I've had a number of
EPROMs fail,
: all covered and likely never exposed to UV. EPROMs do lose
their
: porograming over time, even when kept in the dark. Fortunately
EPROMs
: are easily duplicated. As long as you can get the same part.
Some
: haven't been manufactured in years though.
: Wayne

I thought I had one fail once, but it turned out that
the leg (pin) became separated just inside of the body.
It hadn't lost it's programming.

How many of which eprom would you like/need?

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