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minus-squareTheEighthDoctor@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 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-squareundefinedTruth@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-29 hours agoAhh, those were the days. 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.
minus-squareTheEighthDoctor@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 hours agoYeah I was gonna say that, It’s not from my time but it’s from my time enough that I still studied them in school
minus-squareZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 day 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.
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.
Ahh, those were the days. 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.
Yeah I was gonna say that, It’s not from my time but it’s from my time enough that I still studied them in school
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.