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On 5/7/24 12:15, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk wrote:
my ears would never be good enough to notice any difference....
Off on another tangent years ago when the first eproms showed up, where
I worked had nothing but programmable proms (as in Data I/O).
I had an Imsai system and had just gotten a board to carry eproms, and
brought one in to put some patterns in it till I got a programmer.
We had a lot of mag tapes, and in our area (programmers cube farm) there
was a utility area with paper punches, binding supplies, and a
demagnetizer a safe distance from anyone's tapes.
We paused during a chat among about half a dozen and I was off to one
side near the demagnetizer. With my eprom in a carrier.
While the discussion on some random topic proceeded, I idly put the prom
on the demagenetizer and proceeded to "degauss" it. Someone noticed me
doing that, and to my amusement, for a bit people were seriously asking
about erasing the part with that. Couldn't maintain laughing long
enough to get to far, but was still hilarious.
about 78 maybe?
thanks
Jim
