Proms: [sdiy] hazards to semis?

[Tom Arnold]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:05:22AM -0700, cynthia.webster at gte.net wrote:
> Ok Maybe this is really an "out there" kinda' response, 
> but perhaps it's possible to download data off on an eprom, 
> to disk, and then as a back-up... to email the very same data to 
> you- so that in a worst case scenario, you could recreate or 
> clone the eprom again at your end?

Sure, cloning a ROM/PROM/EPROM/EEPROM is pretty much cake to do.  Some of the
older Eprom's require special programmers ( read : ancient ) but its still
very doable.

I've been slowly archiving roms from my equipment as the EPROMS used do have
a finite lifetime.

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