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Re: [Simmons Drums] Re: Eprom set on eBay

2006-02-04 by gordon@gjcp.net

> It's a woman selling these and the chips suck.
> Again, cheap laser copied Simmons lables. If they were just eproms, why
> does she need to put the Simmons label on them?
> A couple people I know have been burned by these cheap eproms fished
> out of old printers and had sound blown on them.
> Try to avoid at all costs.

From earlier discussions it sounds like it's the way they are copied
that's the problem.

You don't get "cheap eproms", they're all pretty much made by the same fab
and cost about the same.  In any case, it doesn't make the slightest bit
of difference what they were used for before.

And - as Jesper says - they're always worth checking for crunchy goodness
before erasing.  One of my favourites is an EGA BIOS ROM...

Gordon

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