15 Oct
2005
15 Oct
'05
4:49 p.m.
No, don't have a schematic, but if anyone wants to
lend me a physical
unit, I'll reverse engineer it. :)
(..seriously; it's one I have wanted to RE.)
You're generous... I would expect to be _given_ (as in, to keep
afterwards) the machine if I was going to spend a few weeks/months
producing schematics
Amd that is a realistic estimate of the time IMHO. Reverse engineering is
a lot easier if you have one or more large chips (processor, etc) that
can eseentially only be used in one way. If you find, say, a 8250, it's a
very good bet it's going to be part of a serial port, that there'll be an
8 bit data bus going into it, etc. If you just have a mass of 74xx gates
and flip-flops, it could be almost anything. And a board of discretes is
even worse, it might not even be digital.
-tony