>The problem here is that the "10 year" battery life scares some of the
>collectors and that EEPROM wears out. So what you need is something that
>doesn't wear out and has no battery. And if you throw in nostalgia value
>also
>that only leaves one thing---magnetic core memory! (Running for cover at
>high
>speed!)
Remember the Mindset PC? It had bubble-memory cartridges, maybe there's
some of those out there in surplus land. ;-)
I think that 10-20 years down the road there will be larger problems than
replacing a battery-backed SRAM chip involved in keeping these old games
running...
-Clay
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