Monthly Archives: August 2019

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

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 (Programmable Read-Only Memory); you programmed it once by blowing fuses and then it held that data permanently.

from Pocket