[vcf-midatlantic] X-ray erasure of EPROMs, was Re: Getting Data off old Atari Floppies

[Dave McGuire]

On 12/14/2015 07:41 PM, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>>> Yeah 300F was completely wrong, I was mixing baking floppies up with
>>> baking EPROMS after x-ray (not UV!) based erasure (which really does
>>> need 300F).
>>
>>  Can you tell me more about this?  Does baking somehow address the
>> problem of surface state creation during X-ray erasure?
>>
>>  (I type this with a glance at a stack of trays containing several
>> thousand non-windowed EPROM-based microcontrollers, and another glance
>> over at my X-ray machine..)
> 
>    You forgot to mention your electron microscope.

  Can an electron beam erase EPROMs nondestructively??

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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