At 03:44 17-01-1999 -0000, you wrote: No, but the bridge board might. Admittedly, I'm not 100% sure what the difference is between the standard and CMOS versions. Any enlightenment. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies http://www.bluefeathertech.com Amateur Radio:(WD6EOS) E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com SysOp: The Dragon's Cave (Fido 1:343/272, 253-639-9905) "Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."

Once upon a midnight dreary, Tony Duell had spoken clearly: Erm, correct me if I'm wrong ('cause I may very well be) but at least in comparison with 4xxx CMOS vs. 74xx TTL, not only do the require less power to do their job, but they can also *provide* less power on their outputs to other chips' inputs, right? Do CMOS eproms suffer the same limitation? If so, if the bus that the eprom is on is totally unbuffered and trying to feed too many input gates on the bus, a CMOS might not work and may require something non-CMOS; or if all you have is CMOS, you might have to build a daughtercard to fit in the eprom socket with the CMOS eprom & buffers... If not, [obviously] nevermind. ;-) Just a thought, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig. If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.

I wrote: Bruce wrote: The 'C' version has lower power consumption. Active is somewhat lower; quiescent is *much* lower. In general CMOS parts may have different voltage thresholds on the inputs, but many parts that were specifically designed to replace NMOS parts use input circuits designed for compatability. Unless they designed the board to detect the power consumption of the EPROM (which would be silly), or they are running very close to the minimum load of the power supply (which would be a poor design), it should be fine.

At 13:05 17-01-1999 -0800, you wrote: Cripes! I'm sorry, yes! Everything worked beautifully. However, it appears that the tape image provided for NetBSD is not quite ready for a TK50 cartridge (for whatever reason). I've also tried it on a QIC-style cartridge with exactly the same results (failure), so I also consider it possible that the tape image needs further tweaking, period. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies http://www.bluefeathertech.com Amateur Radio:(WD6EOS) E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com SysOp: The Dragon's Cave (Fido 1:343/272, 253-639-9905) "Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."