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- From: cyberman@toz.buffalo.ny.us (Cyberman)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: X-rays, aircraft and
- Message-ID: <gate.uRy2TB1w165w@toz.buffalo.ny.us>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 02:15:05 GMT
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- Pyrdek@edinboro.edu entitled a message as 'X-rays, aircraft and frie',
- on the 11-06-92 19:48 to All.
- Py> What I am wondering is what is the probability that the x-ray
- Py> unit(s) may have fried the chips or is it more likely that travelling
- Py> in some aircraft hold (possibly unheated and/or unpressurized)
- Py> caused these problems. Or is it more likely that the various jolts
- Py> and bumps may have caused at least two (and quite possibly more)
- Py> seperate failures at the same time?
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- Py> Care to venture an opinion?
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- Yes if the micro controller is an OTP and not a MASKED one
- the XRAY devices may have erased some the EPROM bits. OTP
- micro controller use a non windowed eprom so you can't
- "erase" them. However you may be able to do it with XRAYS.
- :)
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- Cyberman
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