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Re: SMC wd8013 Ethernet cards and EEPROMs




>	Any advice or part numbers regarding 16k EPROMs? Most of the
>ones I've found on Digikey seem fairly slow (120ns); is this a problem,
>or will the older card also be somewhat slow? Any pther useful sites
>selling older chips?

27C128. 120ns is actually quite fast. Motherboards are usually designed
to accomodate relatively slow BIOS ROMs. Relative to RAM speeds that
is. I normally use 200ns EPROMs without problems. I pull EPROMs from
old VGA cards and AT motherboards for this purpose.
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