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Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses (2019)


The MMI 5300 was a memory chip from the early 1970s, storing 1024 bits in tiny fuses. 1 Unlike regular RAM chips, this was a PROM ( Progra...

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