Electrical Engineering - OT: Bet of the century

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OT: Bet of the century

linnix

2006-02-27, 6:21 pm

Pieter wrote:
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> Hi, in the old days, things had to live much longer. Some eproms were
> specified for 10 years, but a lot for 100 years. Compare that to
> nowadays electronics.
>
> It also depends on how well the eprom was programmed, with the "speed"
> options of several programmers, the small eprom-capacitors may not
> have been charged to their full capacity but only a little above the
> "ok" limit. I can imagine that they loose their contents faster.
>

OK, since you are so confident about this, let each put up $100 cash.
You find the EPROM and I set up the programming and verification
environments in a third party site. Your familly get the cash if it
lasts 100 years and mine get it if not. Perhaps some one in vegas
would be willing to hosts this bet.

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