Me gets the impression you're dating yourself Ron... :-) > Ron Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All EEPROMs have a finite life to maintain their programmed info. > The earlier ones were in the months time frame (this is in the > 70s) and were used for development only. > > Later in the 80s most were up to 10 years. Today 40 years is > common. It is not a factor of the device going bad for it > could be reprogrammed.
and... Some of the folks on here have never had to "keep alive" early d-ram voice storage "dvr" units. As an example... ACC DVR boxes required "a lot of current". So when the power went out and you were on a battery back up... the generator had better start to keep the show alive before the batteries (or LVD) fell below the min... else you would have to reload everything back into the DVR. aaaaahhhh......! After the third or forth time reloading a DVR becomes no fun. s.
