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   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 3/5/2025 4:24 PM, Marion wrote:   
   > On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 14:59:06 -0500, Paul wrote :   
   >   
   >   
   >> When you use paper tape regularly, you learn how to recognize   
   >> end of record marks. When a tape load reports a read error,   
   >> you can roll back a record and retry, which takes less time   
   >> than loading the paper tape all over again. Learning to do that,   
   >> is a "survival mechanism" :-)   
   >   
   > Speaking of such survival mechanisms, when I was burning EPROMs for the   
   > Motorola 68701 (probably mid 80's time frame) that I wire wrapped myself, I   
   > would write down the Assembly Language instructions, at first, on my own.   
   >   
   > Then, after a while, it was a "survival mechanism" to just use the hex   
   > instead, as what's the difference between "load accumulator A" (LDAA) and   
   > the hex (86) or for extended addressing, (B6) for the same command.   
   >   
   > It's not that big of a stretch to remember 86 versus LDAA, and it helps a   
   > lot when it came to burning the EEPROMs (which the 68701 had internally).   
   >   
   > Those days are over and gone, never to return.   
   > I won't need that EEPROM burner any more than a dwellmeter & timing light.   
      
   There are still EEPROMs. They're too convenient to throw away.   
      
   For example, you can store the program code for an FPGA   
   (Field Programmable Gate Array) inside an EEPROM.   
      
   Since they keep finding new uses for them, and they   
   keep going into different shaped packages, you'll never   
   really be rid of them.   
      
      Paul   
      
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