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Yep, "UV eraser" confirmed by an elmer I know. A unit with a drawer and a timer knob, he says you'd typically set for 30 minutes. He says he does recall people
by jmbwell 3y ago
Yep, "UV eraser" confirmed by an elmer I know. A unit with a drawer and a timer knob, he says you'd typically set for 30 minutes.
He says he does recall people calling it "flashing," but not until much later, by which time it would have been actual "flash" memory.
As for my own memory, I'm going to file this under Mandela Effect, cross-referenced under Things People Probably Told Me That I've Believed Since Before The Internet Was Available To Fact-Check!
- salawat 3y agoNote that the Internet isn't always right, and sometimes the dead trees are the only reliable source. The Mandela Effect is just a name we've come up with for identifying biological memory faults.
- epcoa 3y agoStill own and use a little 9V plastic “portable” UV EPROM eraser that I’ve had for 30 years. Never heard the term “flashing” in this use even when I used them commercially. It really makes no sense what it has to do with flashing, it’s a steady gas discharge lamp for 10 to 20 minutes. The process of programming EPROM was colloquially called “burning” whereas for Flash the programming is called “flashing”, despite the characteristic that the name originally refers to is fast erase speed.