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[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Ahh, those were the days. 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.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah I was gonna say that, It's not from my time but it's from my time enough that I still studied them in school