[Robotgroup] Collector looking for old computers you don't want/ have room for

[Andre Lamothe]

Even removing the eeproms can damage the computers, opening them, breaking 
the seals, etc. But, you are right the trapped charge migrates thru the 
substrate after a while and the cells become null'ed. But, there are 
collectors out there that have already archived every eeprom on the planet. 
For example, MAME has about 25,000 eeproms archived :)

The biggest problem is backing up all the floppies, he has tens of thousands 
of them, and you can imagine how long that takes each. Its one if his 
services actually getting data off old media.

Andre'


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TomD" <TomD at hyperweb.com>
To: "The Robot Group Mailing List" <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Collector looking for old computers you don't 
want/ have room for


> He should be backing up all the Eproms, they dont hold charge forever.
> Only the really old fuse-links can in theory last forever, although there
> as a regrowth issue with some early ones.
>
> OTP ROMs use an UV-EPROM with an opaque package, they wont last much 
> longer
> than a windowed unit that is kept out of the light.
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