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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First, wear your dust mask. Who knows where these machines have been?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Maybe you're thinking of EPROMs? I can't think of anything else that you'd need UV light for. Even then the UV was used to erase them, not write.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Modern FPGAs don't use UV light, but maybe earlier ones did? As you say, EEPROMs used UV for erasing before writing again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

...now i'm getting confused. Those chips with the round window in the center, what were they again?