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by Gracana 1486 days ago
In the past, technicians would get engineering change orders and follow the instructions to rewire boards to fix problems. You could also replace state machine and microprogram ROMs, which I guess sounds a lot like a firmware update.
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It's expensive to hire someone technical enough to:

- Perform such an update

- Sign off that they performed the update _correctly_

If you need an air-gapped system, it's still much easier to set it up so it can update from a USB flash drive and log "I did the update correctly" back to the drive.