3 Jan
2007
3 Jan
'07
1:21 p.m.
Brad Parker wrote:
"Joachim Thiemann" wrote:
A friend of mine brought a Spectrum back from Saudi Arabia when they
were still very very new. It didn't survive the trip. I often wondered
if airport X-rays had toasted the already-fragile ULA.
Gordon
Actually, I've been wondering: What is the
effect of x-rays on EPROMS?
I was always told it could flip bits. But that was older UV erasable
types. I'd would be interested to know if that is really true...
(I'm having a flash back to wrapping eproms in tin-foil when flying
prototype game carts and coin-op games out to the west coast. probably
just paranoid, but we did that)
now days I just wear the tin-foil as a hat :-)
-brad