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minus-squareTheEighthDoctor@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·20 days agoBack in the old days BIOS were not writable or you had to erase the chips with ultraviolet light or some crazy shit like that.
minus-squareZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 days agoIf it was UVEPROM, otherwise you needed to replace the ROM. At least fuse-based ones don’t suffer from forgetting the data on being powered off.
minus-squareundefinedTruth@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoAhh, those were the days like. Putting the UVEPROMS under the sun and waiting for them to be erased to use them again. Just kidding! I am not that old. But I used to have a professor telling us stories about that sort of thing many years ago.
Back in the old days BIOS were not writable or you had to erase the chips with ultraviolet light or some crazy shit like that.
If it was UVEPROM, otherwise you needed to replace the ROM. At least fuse-based ones don’t suffer from forgetting the data on being powered off.
Ahh, those were the days like. Putting the UVEPROMS under the sun and waiting for them to be erased to use them again. Just kidding! I am not that old. But I used to have a professor telling us stories about that sort of thing many years ago.