On Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 9:29 AM Steve Baker <stevebake...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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? > That would be, http://club100.org/memfiles/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=Steve%20Adolph/ROM2S And the serial cable: http://tandy.wiki/Model_T_Serial_Cable And a serial terminal app on a modern pc. For Windows I'd say probably TeraTerm https://osdn.net/projects/ttssh2/releases/ On linux I use minicom. I'd probably use minicom on mac too though I don't know if there's something more convenient on mac. I apologize, this could use a bit more help and direction than "use this comm program" but that'll have to be later. I think there might be an app that writes directly to a file via TPDD too, instead of using a terminal program to capture plain text. I might be inventing that, I'll have to look around. That wouldn't be necessarily fewer or easier steps just different. But it would mean setting up a tpdd emulator and installing a tpdd client on the t102, which is just a handy thing you're going to want in general anyway. -- bkw > 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 > > >
