Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: LUGThe M6 Fugue
From: Stephen Holloway <stephen.holloway@balcab.ch>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:03:50 +0100

Austin Franklin wrote:
> 
> Is it LCD or LED (do you know the difference, not meant insultingly,
> because a lot of people don't know the difference)?  18 year old LCD is
> pretty old LCD...  I didn't say they couldn't last longer than 10 years,
> that is the MTTF number the vendors give...  If it is LCD, I assure you, it
> will fade as time goes on, it's the nature of the material.
> 
> Another interesting MTTF number is for EPROMs (Electrically Programmable
> Read Only Memory) ICs, that are used to store computer programs in a lot of
> devices...  They start to 'lose' the programmed information after about 10
> years or so...
> 

EPROM stands for 'Erasable Progammable Read Only Memory'. Did you think
there some programmed by steam?

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Stephen Holloway
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