Andy Kunz wrote:
> If you insist on throwing them away, I have a trash can for them here
> at my deskside - just mail them on over.

  Might I too offer my services as the Australian equivalent "trash can"?
I have yet to try it, and need to experiment with exposure etc., but have
a fair idea I could recycle them if indeed the "fuzes" are all EPROM.

Niki Steenkamp:
> Just out of curiosity, would it be possible to erase a PIC with
> something like X-Rays?

  Ahh yes, that«s the question isn«t it?  OTP ones and all.  That said, I
should be surprised if what SHOULD be quite a brief and diffuse exposure
in an airport X-ray unit (presumably using an Image Intensifier) would
have such an effect.  I would expect the requirement to be more along the
lines of quite a few seconds close up to the tube.

  Typical continuous ("screening") currents of 1 to 2mA at 60KV represent
about 100W, so it is a bit more powerful than your UV tube.  Bursts of
about 200mA for a part of a second thus correspond to 10KW peak.  I have
no idea of the comparative conversion efficiencies in each case, nor the
effect of the different wavelengths.

  Some experiments are obviously in order.

  Paul B.