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On 2015-08-23, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> That's quite normal - electrolytic caps are the only electronic
> components that can be considered to "wear out". Apart from batteries
> of course :-)

And various forms of non-volatile memory (EEPROM, NAND flash, etc.)
that can withstand a limited number erase/program cycles.

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