24 Jun
2006
24 Jun
'06
8:40 p.m.
yeah, got the techie manuals for the T2K...alot of
good itll do me if a weirdo chip goes bad. I even
All I can say is that it can't be harder to make a functional equivalent
chip (say in an FPGA) if you have the manuals, than if you don't. OK,
there may not be _that_ much information in the tech manual, but at least
you'll know the functions the chip performs, the pinout, etc.
It's like the argument that you should carry a few important car spares
(and things like jump leads). You're much more likely to find somebody
who knows how to use them if you break down, than you are to find
somebody who knows how to use them _and has them_
checked the manual today to see if there was any
resemblence between this SMC 9007? and/or 9212? to a
6845 maybe...no dice. Yep, custom components sure do
bite, but Ive had to come to the acknowledgement that
to some degree theyre unavoidable...could I possibly
I try to avoid machines which use custom chips, but I have to acknowledge
they exist. Several of my machines have custom chip processors (things
like the BPC hybrid in the HP9825, HP9831 and HP9845, and even the arrays
of processors in the DAP). I just don't like to depend on them
ban a 2000 from my collection...or a Mindset...?
I know the feeling :-)
-tony