Panasonic RL H-1400 - Information Needee

That's a very generous offer, but there are two problems ... first I'm presently in San Bernardino :( and won't be back in San Diego until Sunday, and only Sunday at that. The bigger problem, though, is actually getting the capsule out to read it. I opened up my HHC-4 and dug out the NYL capsules, which I hadn't examined too closely before. They *seem* to be regular 24-pin EPROMs (with an NYL sticker conveniently covering the UV window; they're 4K TMS 2532s, for those interested). The problem is not the chip, which seems to be a regular old ROM. The problem is that the DIP legs are wrapped *around* the capsule carrier, and digging the DIP out is probably going to damage the chip. I could try wiring it into my Jason-Ranheim Promenade, but I don't see much I could attach the wires to on the capsule side, and soldering leads directly on to the DIP legs is right out because I'm very worried I would ruin this first example of this capsule I've ever seen! Is the BASIC ROM similarly "wrapped" on yours? If it is, perhaps there's another way of doing this -- some way of reading out the contents of the ROM using the HHC itself. If you've got the printer, maybe if we could scrabble some way of printing out a hex dump, assuming this BASIC is halfway sane and has PEEK and POKE or a moral equivalent. We'd just have to figure out where in memory, but this is easier than it looks because it would have to start on a 4K page boundary, meaning we'd only have to glance at 16 possible areas. If one of them has BASIC keywords, we've found it. All this to say I would be *very* antsy about damaging a *very* rare ROM with my relatively novice EE skills, despite the fact I want it *very* much! -- ---------------------------------- personal: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Floodgap Systems Ltd * So. Calif., USA * ckaiser(a)floodgap.com -- Five is a sufficiently close approximation to infinity. -- Robert Firth ----