Explained: Upgrading old pinball software

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How do you install software updates onto an old pinball machine? Well, let's find out!

The EPROM or Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory chips are emptied by UV light, after which they can be rewritten again. All the classic solid state pinball platforms use them and it wasn't until long into 2000s when the machines first started seeing flash memory with USB stick updates and eventually direct updates from the Internet.

This is a remake of last summer's video that featured my old hardware, including the Stag Solar programmer.

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