On Saturday 10 November 2007 16:51, Al Kossow wrote:
My Bigboard II
has a bit of interesting code in the EPROM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigboard
That was the first thing I looked at, which pointed to the file I found on
bitsavers. :-)
The EPROM source was available with the board, there
should be
no need to disassemble it.
Right. I have, somewhere, a loose-leaf binder that has what paper I have on
that board, including my paper schematics -- I'm *real* happy to have found
that file so I have a backup copy of that info in electronic form, too. But
I don't recall whether the source code was included in that or not.
"Available with the board" may not mean that I got it -- there was BIOS source
available with it too, and I never got that. It was supposed to come on the
same (eight inch!) floppy I'd get my purchased copy of CP/M on, only I
didn't have the funds to buy all that at once, and so attempted to spread
out my purchases a bit. And right in there someplace was when Cal-Tex ceased
its operations... :-(
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
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