• TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip
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      17 hours ago

      Back in the old days BIOS were not writable or you had to erase the chips with ultraviolet light or some crazy shit like that.

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        3 hours ago

        Ahh, those were the days like. Putting the UVEPROMS under the sun and waiting for them to be erased to use them again. Just kidding! I am not that old. But I used to have a professor telling us stories about that sort of thing many years ago.

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        17 hours ago

        If it was UVEPROM, otherwise you needed to replace the ROM. At least fuse-based ones don’t suffer from forgetting the data on being powered off.