Disasters and Recovery

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Sun Jan 17 23:01:38 1999

> Wow! That would imply some sort of self-catalyzed reaction, and I'd be
> very interested in hearing how that works!

It works because an EPROM is a bunch of tiny little capacitors (storing
electrons on the floating gates), and the charge gradually leaks off of them.
Just like bits in a DRAM, but much more slowly.
Received on Sun Jan 17 1999 - 23:01:38 GMT