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From: zjoc01@amoco.com (Jack Coats)
Subject: Re: recycling PIC1654 chips
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Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 11:56:46 CDT
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In article <2q5ls3$elo@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, ted@shoppe.UCSC.EDU (Ted Cantrall) writes:
>>I have 3 PIC1654 (not 16c54) chip from old mice that I would like to use.
>>I'm afraid that they are one-time EPROMS, though. If that is so, is there
>>any way that they could be used for anything else?
>>		-ted-
>>----------------------------Univ Calif @ Santa Cruz----------------------------
>>  ted@lick.ucsc.edu |"He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the
>>W (408)459-2110     |Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness
>>H (408)423-2444     |and to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8 (RSV)

Nope, my understanding is that they are ONE TIME PROGRAMABLE, and probably have
the security bit set to boot (so you can't read out the program).


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