5 Apr
2011
5 Apr
'11
11:33 a.m.
On 5 Apr 2011 at 10:34, CRC wrote:
A friend who currently runs an PDP11 as part of his
business had a
failure of one of the PROMs in his disk/tape controller. These beasts
seem to be unobtainium - does anyone have any spares in their kit or
know of a source. Understand that the chips are one-time-programmable
so pulls aren't a reasonable solution...
Jameco is still selling TPB24S81 PROMs:
http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_27
828_-1
Looks like a pretty close match. Of course, you have to find someone
to program the darned things.
--Chuck