Hello again, and thanks for your response! > For any NEC rom (meaning, does NOT need a pinout adapter like all the > 100/102/200 roms do) you could get a bare TL-866 from ebay.
This sounds awesome… I ordered one and it should arrive by Monday, and I look forward to learning how to use this tool and find out how to grab the image! > For any of the 100/102/200 roms it gets a little more complicated. You either > need to be able to remove the chip from the pinout adapter, or get a DIP test > clip (28 or more pins) (and some wires and a DIP-28 socket just to hold the > free ends of the 28 wires), or use software to have the M100/200 read it and > copy it out to the serial port. This also sounds awesome — especially by using software to have the T102 read it and copy it out to the serial port. What software in particular should I use? Again, thanks! Steve -- Greetings from Steve Baker “Gravity brings me down…” > On Dec 17, 2020, at 12:59 AM, Brian K. White <b.kenyo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 12/16/20 8:02 PM, Steve Baker wrote: >> Cool, happy to help with the exploration! >> Just getting into the hardware side of things, and I don’t have a NEC to try >> out the R2/Clu chip. Thoughts on how I could dump this? Or a gadget I could >> order to help me do that? > > For any NEC rom (meaning, does NOT need a pinout adapter like all the > 100/102/200 roms do) you could get a bare TL-866 from ebay. > https://www.ebay.com/itm/233816729184 > The software is free and easy. (or at least, I could tell you what to do > exactly.) > > For any of the 100/102/200 roms it gets a little more complicated. You either > need to be able to remove the chip from the pinout adapter, or get a DIP test > clip (28 or more pins) (and some wires and a DIP-28 socket just to hold the > free ends of the 28 wires), or use software to have the M100/200 read it and > copy it out to the serial port. > >> Or I mail it to someone who would know what to do with it? (I have a small >> set of operational T102s, two non-functional T200s, and an awesome T. WP-2, >> but alas no NECs. > I would do it. But I would also walk you through using the TL-866 if you want > to try getting into that. > >> Any thoughts on the Gold v7.10 chip? Is that of any interest? I would be >> happy to install that into a T102 and see what happens when I call 63012, in >> the name of science! > > -- > bkw
