Hand Held Products 71M/M eprom carrier question

[cmurillo]

Quote:At the time, I wanted to use CMOS parts, and so I bypassed the switching element (a transistor), as you can see on attached picture, so the EPROM was always powered on and the problem was solved.

J-F

So... I take it from this that read accesses to the EPROM are slowed down by this mechanism, making this HHP device inherently slow?