On Sat, 30 May 1998, Joe wrote:
> I went to a surplus store last week and found an odd Atari box. It says
> it's an Automatic ROM/RAM Tester. It has two rows of address switches, one
> switches on one row are labeled 10 through 0 and have LEDs above them. The
> second row of switches only has five switches and they marked 11 through 15
> and don't have corrosponding LEDS. Switch 11 is directly below switch 10,
> switch 12 is below switch 9, and so on. It looks like they may be
> multiplexed somehow. The box also has 8 Data switches and LEDs. The are
> four low insertion force sockets on the box, two are for 25 pin DIPs and 2
> are for 20 pin DIPs. There are also various other switchs marked 1K/2K,
> RUN/STOP, Read/R/W*, and GAME/BOX. There is only one connector on the box,
> it goes to a 50 pin card edge connector via a ribbon cable. There are no
> power connectors or other connectors on it so it has to part of a larger
> unit. Any ideas? Anyone?
It sounds like a tester for Atari 2600 carthridge ROMs. Very cool.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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