Date   : Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:24:11 +0100
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: mystery ROMs

On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 15:10 -0500, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Phil Blundell wrote:
> > I've just been looking at some of the ROMs that are plugged into my
> > collection of B21 boards.  So far I've come across two that I don't
> > recognise: according to *HELP they are VTOPS 1.11 and Churchill College
> > ROM 2.00.  Does anybody know anything about those?
> 
> If those were from the ones I gave you, the latter's more than likely from 
> Churchill college at Cambridge uni.

Yup, that's what I figured.  These are indeed the B12s that you gave me.

> I think those boards had various 'leftovers' on them (they were a good place 
> to park ROMs where the chips wouldn't get damaged :-) so there's nothing 
> 'special' about them being alongside any other chips.

Right, I suspected that might be the case.  One of them had about three
different versions of NFS plugged into it, and at least a couple of the
ROMs don't seem to be BBC images at all.

Annoyingly the hard disk on my MDFS seems to have given up the ghost
(won't spin anymore) which rather limits the tools at my disposal to
investigate the contents of these ROMs.  I suppose I should get my
finger out and finish off that SCSI/IDE bridge so that I can replace it
with a CF card or something. :-}

That also reminds me, by a circuituous route, that I should also have a
go at dumping an image of that HDFS disk that's been sitting on top of
my bookcase for about a decade.  I wonder if I still have any machines
that are likely to be able to read it.

p.