[time-nuts] Maintaining boatanchors (was Capacitor Failures)

Bob Camp lists at rtty.us
Fri Oct 22 22:53:50 UTC 2010


Hi

Find pin compatible replacement EPROM's while you still can. They don't make all those small / slow / multiple supply / parts any more.  Saves building all sorts of strange adapter boards as well as re-shooting the memories.

Bob


On Oct 22, 2010, at 6:44 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <1498648302.205602.1287785250803.JavaMail.root at sz0110a.emeryville.ca
> .mail.comcast.net>, k6rtm at comcast.net writes:
> 
>> What to do? Pop out the parts and rewrite them? Dump them to disk as well? 
> 
> Make backup-copies while they have no problems.
> 
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