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minus-squareWhelks_chance@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up45·2 months agoBack in the old days there was no rollback option either. Kids have it too easy now.
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 months agoWay back in the day, there was no firmware update.
minus-squareTheEighthDoctor@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoBack in the old days BIOS were not writable or you had to erase the chips with ultraviolet light or some crazy shit like that.
minus-squareZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoIf it was UVEPROM, otherwise you needed to replace the ROM. At least fuse-based ones don’t suffer from forgetting the data on being powered off.
minus-squareundefinedTruth@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 month agoAhh, those were the days. Putting the UVEPROMS under the sun and waiting for them to be erased to use them again. Just kidding! I am not that old. But I used to have a professor telling us stories about that sort of thing many years ago.
minus-squareTheEighthDoctor@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoYeah I was gonna say that, It’s not from my time but it’s from my time enough that I still studied them in school
minus-squareAxolotl@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoI mean, there is still no rollback if you don’t spend a lot of extra bucks for that feature
Back in the old days there was no rollback option either. Kids have it too easy now.
Way back in the day, there was no firmware update.
Back in the old days BIOS were not writable or you had to erase the chips with ultraviolet light or some crazy shit like that.
If it was UVEPROM, otherwise you needed to replace the ROM. At least fuse-based ones don’t suffer from forgetting the data on being powered off.
Ahh, those were the days. Putting the UVEPROMS under the sun and waiting for them to be erased to use them again. Just kidding! I am not that old. But I used to have a professor telling us stories about that sort of thing many years ago.
Yeah I was gonna say that, It’s not from my time but it’s from my time enough that I still studied them in school
I mean, there is still no rollback if you don’t spend a lot of extra bucks for that feature