Date : Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:48:48 +0100
From : mike@... (Mike Tomlinson)
Subject: mystery ROMs
In article <4A4156CA.1030904@...>, Rick Murray <rick@...>
writes
> [EPROM 27128] Spellcheck III SBA 84A7
Beebug's Spellcheck 3, I think.
> [EPROM 27128] DNFS "Blown under licence from Acorn Computers Ltd"
Standard
> [EPROM 2764] Turtle
A LOGO rom for a Valiant Turtle or similar.
> [EPROM 27C256] InterWORD [1]
See below
> [EPROM 27128] AMPLE ID 63347
Goes with Music 500(0)
> [ROM] 2201,1770-08 BBC 1770 DFS
Standard
> [EPROM 27128] ADFS 2
Standard
> [EPROM 2764] Wordwise
Watford's Wordwise
> [EPROM 27128] AMX S.A.
AMX SuperArt. Needs the AMX mouse and the support discs
> [EPROM 2764] NLQ
Watford's Epson NLQ ROM which gets improved printing quality out of most
8-pin matrix printers (before NLQ printers with more needles in the
printhead became common)
> [EPROM 27128] Advanced Teletext ROM 2.58
oo. 2.58? Sure it's not 2.50? That'll cause some excitement.
> [EPROM [2] ] ARM ADT
Advanced Disc Toolkit. A debugger. You need the manual and support
discs (I gave them to someone on the list years ago)
>1 - I will remove the label and rip Interword directly from EPROM, but
>it may fail in an emulator as it is mounted on some sort of carrier
>board which looks like it is somehow fiddling with the addressing, for
>it's a bigger EPROM than normal.
It's a 32k or 128k EPROM. The carrier board has paging logic built in.
It won't work unless the hardware is duplicated
>2 - This may or may not be for the BBC. It's an Intel EPROM marked:
> i 3407-0391
> S70058
> U732054ZS
Unusual markings. I'd expect an Intel EPROM to be a typical 27128 or
similar. It'd have to be plugged in to see if it contains anything of
interest.
>I also have a bunch of 'blank' EPROMs which may or may not contain
>stuff. If there is a "(C)" in the start of the EPROM (around +8 or
>somesuch? that's the BBC ROM ID isn't it?) I'll save out these as well...
&8009 or &8012 (can't remember which) contains the ROM ID string if it
is for a Beeb. It terminates in a chr$(0).
There are manuals for some of the above@...
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