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

[J. Forster]

A lot of EPROMS and PROMS are archived by BlueFeather and a couple of sites.

-John

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> I've got a lot of old(er) HP and Tek test gear. Built to last, the manuals
> include schematics and theory of ops, and they still perform.
>
> It's not the old electrolytics that scare me -- it's the old EPROMs. All
> those wonderful micro-based instruments with their extensive self-test on
> startup routines -- sooner or later enough of that trapped charge will
> leak out, and bits will start flipping...
>
> What to do? Pop out the parts and rewrite them? Dump them to disk as well?
>
> bob k6rtm
>
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