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To: Michael Latas who wrote (7521)	1/25/2004 4:02:47 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8393

Spirit's 256K flash appears to have been the problem on Mars, according to the engineers. Maybe the next mission will have our radiation hardened OUM non-volatile memory. "BAE has just made public its plans to offer for sale the Ovonic memory. BAE has published Preliminary Information spec sheets for a 512K x 8 radiation-hardened chalcogenide non-volatile RAM and a 128K x 8 radiation-hardened C-RAM E2PROM. The development of the products is sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory/VSSE and will utilize technology licensed from Ovonyx, Inc. — ECD's JV with Tyler Lowrey, among whose partners is Intel." ovonic.com Del

To: Michael Latas who wrote (7521)	1/26/2004 2:10:52 PM
From: jacq	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8393

We need to get the message out that these batteries in the Kyocera telephones were the dangerous Li-Ion chemistry. I think that the Consumer Product Safety Agency is remiss in not identifying what kind of battery was involved in this recall. Lithium Ion has had repeated troubles for as long as I can remember. I remember the MoLi cell which practically burnt a Japanese man's ear off when he attempted to use his cell phone. Then there have been the Apple notepad fires in which case they recalled the entire shipment and then got out of supplying the Li-Ion battery pack with there machine. Then there was the fire at one of the manufacturing plants. The Li_Ion technology is the problem here. By the way the batteries on the Spirit rover are Li-Ion as well. They were not designed for a long life cycle, just enough to transmit pictures for about 3 months.