Re: How to care for an old computer?

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

"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
news:Jq2Sb.30984$A7.10360@edtnps84...
: Bill Garber wrote:
:
: > 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?
:
: Thanks Bill but I'm not too badly off for EPROMs. I've had a
lot of
: junk electronics pass through here over the years and I've
saved all
: the EPROMs.
: Bigest annoyance is something that happened a couple years
back.
: I've been in no hurry so I've just been using sunlight to wipe
EPROMs.
: Unfortunately I tried a UV setup someone had for wiping EPROMs
and a
: number got too hot and now won't program. Also unfortunately
they got
: mixed in with my other EPROMs so I can't tell which is which
until I
: try to program it.
:
: Wayne

I have a can't tell bag, so I know what you mean.
These are TTL chips though. Simply plug in and if
it goes it was good, if not remove and, oops, I
put it back in the bag, darn. ;-)

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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