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34441
Hal, The one in Evanston! Ron ... should ... a ... to ... is ... up ... night ... to ... seeing ... there...
Ron Reuter
mainbyte
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Nov 1, 2004
11:57 am
34442
... I meant Saturday. I was writing the message while talking to the wife, so I got distracted. ... She's working both Saturday and Sunday :(...
jdguidry
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Nov 1, 2004
12:18 pm
34443
Is there a way to take a ribbon cable, solder one end to a chip socket, the other to a female card edge connector and be able to program a cartridge, say a ...
Mithrandir
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Nov 1, 2004
12:26 pm
34444
Of couse, I'd guess I'd need to be able to ERASE the original? I suppose Romox may have been able to reprogram via the card-edge but still had to open it to...
Mithrandir
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Nov 1, 2004
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34445
In a message dated 11/1/2004 7:27:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, ti99_forever@... writes: without having to hack the Romox, remove the soldered Eprom, put...
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rbellscsi
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Nov 1, 2004
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34446
In a message dated 11/1/2004 7:43:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, ti99_forever@... writes: Of couse, I'd guess I'd need to be able to ERASE the original? I...
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rbellscsi
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Nov 1, 2004
1:13 pm
34447
If I remember correctly, you just put the cartridge into the machine and it removed the old program and loaded a new one. By this I assume they had a way to...
Ron Reuter
mainbyte
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Nov 1, 2004
2:08 pm
34448
In a message dated 11/1/2004 9:12:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, ti99@... writes: If I remember correctly, you just put the cartridge into the machine ...
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rbellscsi
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Nov 1, 2004
2:16 pm
34449
I have a picture of the (e)eprom at the bottom of this page. Not sure if you can see it good enough or not. ron ...
Ron Reuter
mainbyte
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Nov 1, 2004
2:42 pm
34450
The source should be up on whtech already, and should be under the 9640news folder somewhere as it was posted on Genie eons ago. Use one of the search engines...
Beery_Asst@...
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Nov 1, 2004
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34451
In a message dated 11/1/2004 9:49:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, ti99@... writes: http://mainbyte.com/ti99/hardware/romox/romox.html Can't read the...
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rbellscsi
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Nov 1, 2004
3:23 pm
34452
... then it ... using to ... It usually ... (I cheated and blew up the picture) Its a HN4827646 or the last character could be a g. No matter it is a standard...
Scott Darling
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Nov 1, 2004
3:57 pm
34453
Hi Richard, I'm not familiar with EPROMS, but is there a write protect bit that gets set when you write to the cartridge to prevent you writing over the...
Ernest Pergrem
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Nov 1, 2004
4:14 pm
34454
Maybe i'm a little bit out of the loop, but the purpose of the UV lamp is to reset the bits. I don't know which way it is, but either the bits are set on or...
Beery_Asst@...
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Nov 1, 2004
5:03 pm
34455
Update of November 1, 2004 The TI99ers On-Line User Group can be found at: http://ti99ers.org/ Included in the TI99ers On-Line User Group are the same things...
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Nov 1, 2004
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34456
How about EEPROM?? Dan...
Dan Olson
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Nov 1, 2004
7:39 pm
34457
The difference between EPROMs and EEPROMs is that the latter can be electrically erased with the proper current. That is what ROMOX used in their cartridges....
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Nov 1, 2004
7:56 pm
34458
Ooops! That should have been ZIF socket. Bob Carmany [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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atrax27407
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Nov 1, 2004
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34459
Aww man and I was just about to ask what kind of compression ratio you got on that ZIP socket :) Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: rmcarmany@......
Gregory McGill
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Nov 1, 2004
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34460
... So, an EEPROM doesn't have this clear window? I have a ROMOX cartridge which definitely has a chip with a clear window on it... I just found it yesterday...
Mithrandir
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Nov 1, 2004
10:25 pm
34461
Some do and some don't have a window. Most likely, if it has a window, it is an EPROM. ROMOX never got their idea of "drive in" cartridge programming off the...
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atrax27407
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Nov 1, 2004
11:40 pm
34462
Ok, to add more mud, I checked out one of my romox packages, and it states: Reusable Blank Cartridge So I opened it and scanned the chip that was inside of the...
Ron Reuter
mainbyte
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Nov 2, 2004
12:02 am
34463
The chip is a 2764 EPROM with a 21V Vpp. Both EPROMs (E)rasable (P)rogramable ROM and EEPROMs (E)lectrically (E)rasable (P)rogramable ROM are reusable. They...
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atrax27407
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Nov 2, 2004
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34464
Yes, I agree, but you did not have to take these apart to reprogram them in the machine.. you just put them in the slot. I can't imagine taking them apart and...
Ron Reuter
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Nov 2, 2004
1:28 am
34465
Look at the picture of the programmers under the technology tab and it says that there was a cartridge eraser at the right side of the monitor housing. Maybe...
Ksarul
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Nov 2, 2004
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34466
Great! I'll call you. --Hal ... For ... having ... hello ... everyone ... hours ... how ... have...
Hal Shanafield
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Nov 2, 2004
2:29 am
34467
Hal; Dallas and I will not be able to attend the TI Faire this year although we are very interested. Maybe you could send us any literature or goodies ...
James P. Donovan
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Nov 2, 2004
2:40 am
34468
Jim, sorry to hear that you and Dallas won't be able to make it. You two have been coming for years now, and all the merchants at Gurnee Mills and...
Hal Shanafield
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Nov 2, 2004
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34469
In a message dated 11/1/2004 9:43:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, jpd38@... writes: Who is doing the videos for the Faire? James Hi James, I have been...
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Nov 2, 2004
3:18 am
34470
I did miss that. I looked at the cartridge, did not see any way that the uv could bounce around. I did examine the case a little more and found a much easier...
Ron Reuter
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Nov 2, 2004
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