CRC wrote:
Does anyone have experience with these programmable
bipolar ROMs
failing after a long period of time? I have an old piece of test
equipment that has 8X300 running the display reading its program from
the aforementioned ROMs and the text info is missing pixels -
apparently in the same place in the same letters.
If there are any 7448s or 7447s in the display I would be checking them
first.
A number of our early video games use those PROMs and I have not had any
failures. You can subsitute an Eprom if you are willing to glomp up
interface wiring between the two. Certainly you could read the PROMs
and reconstruct the missing data if you were so inclined.
I should be able to burn a replacement if you can't find anyone else and
can get a blank 82S115 as my Andromeda PROM reader claims it can handle
them...
John :-#)#
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