I took a look on your pictures.  That is 32Kx8 27C256 EPROM chips.  Total 160K 
ROM space.

Use 27C256 EPROM programmer and connected to that ROM cartridge to access data 
inside chips.  Read Jason's message.

I do not have tools at this time.

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Armistead, Jason
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 9:54 AM
To: simh@trailing-edge.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] DEC VT emulators on MAME

Malcolm

After looking at the photos you took of the ROM cartridge internals I think you 
might be better leaving them in-place and making up an adapter from the edge 
connector to a 28 pin socket that you could plug into an EPROM programmer.  By 
the looks of it, there's no chip selection/data buffering logic on the PCB, and 
it's just the EPROMs and some decoupling capacitors.  If you activate the 
appropriate chip select and output enable lines of the EPROMS one at a time, 
you can make sure just a single chip is talking to the EPROM programmer and the 
rest would be dormant.  The pinouts of the 27C256 chips should be readily 
available.

Good luck !

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of 
malc...@avitech.com.au
Sent: Tuesday, 18 April 2017 9:25 AM
To: simh@trailing-edge.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] DEC VT emulators on MAME

Just a quick update: I've broken open the VT340 ROM cartridge.  Inside are 5 x 
surface-mount N27C256 ROMs.

Some pictures of the ROM cartridge are now included on this page -> 
http://avitech.com.au/?p=1818

Is there anyone who has the tools, time and interest to remove these ROMs and 
dump the contents?  If so, please let me know and I will pay the cost of 
shipping to get this cartridge to you.

Malcolm.

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