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Subject: [OM] Re: CF longevity, was: Re: Film vs. Analog - interesting read
From: Tim Hughes <timhughes@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:58:44 -0700 (PDT)
I seem to remember reading the normal memory chips suffer from ionizing 
radiation hits, (because
the number of electrons stored has got to be so small), but they now 
encapsulate/cover the chip
surface to minimise the effect. 

tim Hughes

> that too.  But I do not know if those bits will eventually fade off into 
> the void sitting in the closet or if they're subject to flipping from 
> cosmic rays.
> 
> I do know that cosmic rays were a worry to at least one of IBM's memory 
> engineers when chip density hit 64K bits about 30 years ago.  But that 
> problem was obviouly solved or else maybe didn't exist in the first place.
> 
> Chuck Norcutt


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