PROMs offered: Should I take? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Apr 2000

Well, 82s123 are proms, they are used in a lot of places however are they
programmed or not?

If they are you get whats in them.  If not, you need a way to blast them.

Allison

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Lane &lt;kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com&gt;
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: Saturday, April 01, 2000 12:21 PM
Subject: PROMs offered: Should I take?

...
  I've been offered a cheap price on a tubeful of
Signetics 82S123 bipolar
PROMs.

 If memory serves (pun intended), these were used as boot ROMs for various
PDP-11's of the UniBus persuasion.

 Is this so? If so, are they also useful for other classic apps? I'm
considering picking them up, but don't know for sure whether I'd be wasting
$10 or not...

 Thanks in advance.

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