Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Thu Jun 27 09:30:09 CDT 2019


    > From: Liam Proven

    > This is *epic*.

Indeed. I was blown away by the complexity of his technique for reading
the digits.

I can't believe there wasn't a much easier technique, though, e.g. using a
logic analyzer and a small program to read through the ROS!

Perhaps the challenge of doing it his way entertained him, though, like
George Mallory's famous line about climbing Everest.

	Noel


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