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

  • WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    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.

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      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.

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      11 months ago

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