>Placing them on an alumin(i)um sheet or in conductive foam stopped
>the deaths. While this COULD have been due to cooling we concluded
>at the time that the mechanism was probably electrostatic damage
>in the very toasty conditions.

In my case the EPROMs were still in the PCB, so I would have expected the 
various protection diodes and pull-up resistors to have provided ESD 
protection. 

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