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npsimons on April 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Crowdfunding the Novena Open Laptop

So wish I could upvote you multiple times. People these days are spoiled with their precompiled ROMs and precompiled software that runs on mainstream desktops to load those ROMs over universal standards (USB). Even with JTAG embedded programming was a PITA.

joezydeco on April 3, 2014 [–]

You want to talk about the days of erasing EPROMS in a UV oven and waiting 15 minutes for a 27C512 to burn? =) Because that sucked.

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