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• blow an EPROM /bloh *n ee'prom/ v. (alt. `blast an EPROM', `burn an EPROM') To program a read-only memory, e.
  g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memories (PROMs) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memories (EPROMs) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip....
• blow an EPROM: /bloh *n ee'prom/ v. (alt. `blast an EPROM', `burn an EPROM') To program a read-only memory, e.
  g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memories (PROMs) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memories (EPROMs) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip....
• You're all clear now, kid. Now blow this thing so we can all go home. -- Han Solo
• When proteup first, thankfully leaving the fuses intact. -- Vuilleumier's Fourth Law
• In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses. -- Byrne's Law
• When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
  Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before....
• BF: Blow Fuse