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ottawa rogue
10-19-2007, 12:58 PM
after you pull the chip from the board to put the socket in, is the old chip any good?
i don't know if the heat from desoldering will wipe the info or not

88_pacifica
10-19-2007, 01:00 PM
you need a different chip. It has to be a EPROM... not a PROM. The factory isn't really reprogrammable...

mw6886
10-19-2007, 01:11 PM
Depending on how good you are at pulling the old EPROM, yes it can be reused, but it will need to be erased with an ultraviolet light first.

99% of the computers I have socketed are EPROMS. The only ones I have seen that arent erasable are some of the 86 T1s, with one chip being a OTP and the other being a EPROM.

cordes
10-27-2007, 12:29 AM
I have been able to read and save the bin from the chips that I have pulled thus far. One from an LM and another from an SBEC.