jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) (02/05/88)
> >In article <2407@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, lazarus@athena.mit.edu (Michael Friedman) writes: > >> On the true story front, would you believe an EPROM flash bulb? > >> I hooked up an EPROM upside down. A flash of light bright enough to > >> hurt my eyes came out the quartz window on the chip. > > > >So: we all wanna know! What was in the EPROM when you put it in right? True story: Once, I was working on a dedicated micro project. We were at the stage where we had to test program mode by burning a new EPROM (we were using Intel 2716s), stuffing it into the socket on the board, and seeing what happened. After one revision, I went to the test machine, powered it down, stuffed the ROM in, powered it up, and waited to see what it did. I realized that I'd put the ROM in backwards when it struck me that Intel didn't put power indicators inside their devices. The upshot? After a cycle of erase/fill-with-zeros/erase, the ROM worked perfectly. To my knowledge, it's still in service, 7 years later. (Followups to sci.electronics, and please edit the newsgroups: line; this isn't funny any more.) -- Jay Maynard, K5ZC (@WB5BBW)...>splut!< | GEnie: JAYMAYNARD CI$: 71036,1603 uucp: {uunet!nuchat,academ!uhnix1,{ihnp4,bellcore,killer}!tness1}!splut!jay Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity. The opinions herein are shared by none of my cats, much less anyone else.
chun@pinot.zehntel.com (Wellington Chun) (02/10/88)
True Story: While I was in college getting my Electrical Engineering Computer Science (EECS) degree I had the option to select a a direction within the EECS department. That is, I could direct my studies toward hardware, software, power or semiconductor electronics. However hardware and software was by far the most popular. Anyway at a party, I was talking to this girl (probably a business major) and we got around to discussing our majors. When I told here I was a EECS major she asked quite seriously: "Are you hardcore or softcore?" Oh well, it was funny at the time. Wellington Chun Zehntel, Inc. ....!sun!zehntel!chun 2625 Shadelands Drive Walnut Creek, CA 94598 (415) 932-6900 Zehntel, Inc. ....!sun!zehntel!chun 2625 Shadelands Drive Walnut Creek, CA 94598 (415) 932-6900