Improvising an EPROM Eraser

[Chris Savage]

Speaking of Hack-A-Day (referring to granz's post), I saw this article where someone was building their own EPROM eraser.

Improvising an EPROM Eraser - Hack-A-Day

Improvising an EPROM programmer - Source Article

[granz]

I saw this article - good grief, was it really that long ago?!?!

In addition to this there were several articles in Byte Magazine (and probably others, too) about how to build an EPROM eraser. One of them was actually called the Coffee Can Eraser (Byte, Jan 1977, pg 91.)

[Chris Savage]

Ironically, a coworker told me about this today. I think I am going to buy one, add an Arduino and screen, keypad and relay and make my own EPROM Eraser.

Qualirey 1 Pack UV Lamp Ozone Free, 253.7nm Wavelength UVC Germicidal 6 Watts

[granz]

Those Byte articles all mentioned the damage that UV can do to eyes. Make sure to protect yourself. (I know that you know this, but this is in case anyone else reads this without your knowledge.)