Is this the unit that would take the SNAP
development ROMs?
The SNAP ROMs came in a unit that plugs into the side of the HHC and
has sockets for four 24 pin EPROMs. Unfortunately, my SNAP ROMs no
Right, so it's not the (3rd party) unit that I now have.
Let me ask a few questions about the SNAP development box :
What sort of EPROMs are used (how big, etc) ?
What else is in the unit? My investigations of the logic board have shown
that there are a number of chip select lines brought out on the expansion
connecotr, but there's no sane way to put 4 EPROMs directly on that
connector. I would guess at least there's a 2-4 line decoder. And
probably some transsitors to swich the Vcc to the EPROMs to save battery
power (the HHC itself does that trick). These components may well be SMD
on the back side of the board, BTW.
I am wondering if it would be possible to make a clone of this unit,
using, say, one 16K or 32K EPROM suitable connected.
longer work since a few of the pins broke off one of
the EPROM chips
when I removed it to read the contents on my EPROM programmer. I've
purchased some machined pin sockets on someone's suggestion but I
don't seem to have the skill needed to solder the EPROM pin stubs to
the socket pins. The good news is that I *did* get images of the
EPROMs before the pins broke off this one chip.
Are the EPROMs a rare type? Or could you get new ones and burn the images
into them.
-tony