Re: home made EPROM erasers

Now for the next step---using flashtubes.

There was a company that makes an expensive eraser
that erases an EPROM in 5 SECONDS by using a
xenon flashtube. Anyone up to converting junk camera
flash units into EPROM erasers? Actually a strobe would
work better, probably.

Alan J McCormick wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:38:51 -0500 (EST) Mitchell Rohde
> <bovine@eecs.umich.edu> writes:
>
> > With all due respect, what a total waste of time!
>
> Bite your tongue! He learned something because he was cheap, err frugal.
> What would he have learned if he went out and bought one? How to use a
> credit card? Sure he placed friends and family at risk of blindness and
> carcinoma but that's a small price to pay. (HUMOR) :) :) :)
>
> If I decide to build an eraser out of available parts, that's my choice
> (and more importantly, an expression of my personal style and work
> ethic). Maybe I have more time than money (or brains...).
>
> > And, er, who cares that you can erase 15 proms at a time rather than 5
> or whatever?
>
> ME! I would have sold close friends into white slavery for a unit that
> does 50 EPROMs at once when I bought 300 2532s a few years back. All I
> had was a dinky little unit that does a pair every 30 mins. Do the
> math...<cringe>
>
> p.s. Forgive my newbieness but how do I tell the listprocessor to send me
> a copy of postings to the list? I remember it being mentioned a while
> back but the message leaked out of the bit bucket.
>
> Virtu-Al
>
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Received on Sun Jan 17 03:12:09 1999