Re: Reading a masked ROM the hard way (was Re: Wanted: ROM images from HP 9895, 82901/82902, and other HP-IB disk drives)

2015-09-21 Thread Eric Smith
Of course, that's not the hardest way. You could also do this: http://www.pmonta.com/calculators/hp-35/ I have a few chips that I'll need to do that to, where the ROM is embedded and can't be read out electrically. Unfortunately the chips are in a much finer geometry than the HP-35 chips, so i

Reading a masked ROM the hard way (was Re: Wanted: ROM images from HP 9895, 82901/82902, and other HP-IB disk drives)

2015-09-21 Thread Eric Smith
Someone was kind enough to mail me the masked ROM out of his HP 9895 floppy drive. I've read it and mailed it back. It's an MK36000 series 24-pin 8KB masked ROM, with the same pinout as the Motorola MC68764 EPROM, so reading it with an EPROM programmer set for the Motorola part should work fine. In