On Fri, 8 May 1998 15:53:20 PDT, you wrote:

>While it's easy to make your own x-rays, I think I've got to agree with
>the guy who pointed out that making the efficiently enough to provide
>the energy density (Watts/area) necessary to erase an eprom might be well
>beyond amateur capabilities, even if it were possible to erase them that
>way.  I think this number (W/cm^2) is published somewhere, and I can't
>think of any particular reason why the number would be smaller for xrays
>than for UV.  We all know that it takes pretty intense UV to do the erasing.
>If you've got a little 4W quartz tube, your chip has be be very close to
>erase in reasonable time...
>
>BillW
There's a guy who has info on DIY x-rays, with some x-ray photos here:
http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~kronjaeg/hv/index.html
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