Date   : Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:45:13 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: 1mb Flash to replace master os rom?

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sophos.
 
Charlie.Robson@... wrote:
> While noodling around on the new I saw someone had replaced their
> Spectrum's ROM with the flash chip from an old PC motherboard. IC puller in
> hand I went to the 'desk of dead things' and sure enough, an old PC mobo
> had a 128k  32Kx8 flash chip on it. SchluuuurPOP!
> 
> What would it take to replace the master's MOS rom with the flash ROM,
> suitably programmed?
 
32Kx8? You need 128Kx8. Unless you only want MOS and UTILS :)
 
> Is it even theoretically possible??
 
Yes. I'll have a noodle around myself and see if I can fid any
data sheets on 128K flash ROMs.
 
It's probably likely that you won't be able to program it in situ,
but you would have to pull it and program it elsewhere.
 
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