> Van: Alessandro Zummo <azummo@ITA.FLASHNET.IT>
> Aan: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Onderwerp: Re: PIC12C509 and P16PRO troubles from a beginner
> Datum: woensdag 15 april 1998 14:26

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> selling a windowed pic is a non-sense for me...
> an OTP part is cheaper... anyway shouldn't be simple
> to expose to UV rays only the cp fuse and not the program memory....

Your right.  A OTP is cheaper.  But do a test once and you have your
mony back.  To a test twice and you have a free (windowed) pic.

And about pin-point erasing of EPROM, It isn't easy for you & for me,
but for someone with time, equipment and/or mony it it doable.  The
gains could be very high !

Greetz,
  Rudy Wieser