23 May
2000
23 May
'00
2:32 p.m.
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Chuck McManis wrote:
The good news is that I took apart my VLC, pulled out
the two EPROMs
holding the firmware and successfully read them out and saved them to a
file on disk.
The bad news is that the EPROMs are 27210's (64K X 16 bit) parts.
Apparently these weren't popular enough to either make it into the
"mainstream" or into over stock :-(.
Digi-key, Mouser, JameCo, Future-Active, Wyle, all came up empty. JDR's web
site claimed they had them but the order failed and said "call customer
service" :-0.
So there you go, a "valuable" IC for those with VLC's.
You might check with ACP in the LA area. They have been known to have
some odd ones now and then.
- don
--Chuck