And "flash memory" itself can't be flashed anymore. Isn't it called that because you could erase an EEPROM with a light? That would be EPROM, not EEPROM. The

And "flash memory" itself can't be flashed anymore. Isn't it called that because you could erase an EEPROM with a light? That would be EPROM, not EEPROM. The 'EE' meant Electrically Erasable, so it didn't have (and didn't need) that little window on the top of the DIP package to shine the UV light upon the chip itself of EPROM. Which was still a vast improvement upon PROM, which was write-once. My first encounter with that stuff was a 2nd gen version of the floppy disk controller for my RS Color Computer. The newer version wasn't compatible with the Deft Pascal [1] compiler I had purchased, so some guys at the user group helped me to program the older 1.0 version of the firmware to see if that would work. It didn't. :-( The text editor was still handy though. I eventually got OS-9 Level III running and picked up a C compiler on sale though. [1] http://www.kenandmartha.com/coco/DEFT.html http://www.kenandmartha.com/coco/DEFT.html