max # of eeprom read cycles

[Ingo Debus]

Brigman, Corley wrote:
> right? No synths I have use eeproms for the OS, they all use eproms. The
> program
> memory is usually battery-backed SRAM, from what i've seen? In fact, the
> only
> synth I personally own (mostly hybrids so they're good candidates) is the
> Ensoniq ESQ-M, whose memory cartridges (not the synth itself!) are eeproms.

The newer Ensoniq keyboards (ZR-76, Fizmo) store their patches in
Flash-PROM. They have no battery-backed RAM anymore. At least the Fizmo
(don't know about the ZR) stores its OS also in Flash. The OS can be
updated via MIDI.

Ingo