One day while running I realized all my cool thoughts were being forgotten. So, I started bringing a voice recorder. This was all going well, until a year on, with about 200 recordings saved on it, the recorder was put in the wash.

It still had a trace of life in it. It chirped once. Every now and then I check to see if it came back to life. I cleaned it with alcohol on the connections. I dried it carefully. I let it sit in rice. Nothing. Just two little led lights that I think mean I made a big mistake.

So, I have another voice recorder. Same identical type. This one is brand new. They do not have removable memory cards. Everything is digital, and stored on chips within the unit.

So, what if an expert removed the memory chips from the broken one, and re-soldered them into the new device that works, at least before this is tried it works.

Would hate to destroy a second memo recorder without good reason, but if it’s possible, I’d be willing to try.

Possible problems I foresee are it simple destroying the unit. Or, maybe the heat, or the removal would eliminate any memories still embedded on the chips.

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