good new/bad news on the VLC firmware

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Tue May 23 02:11:34 2000

The good news is that I took apart my VLC, pulled out the two EPROMs
holding the firmware and successfully read them out and saved them to a
file on disk.

The bad news is that the EPROMs are 27210's (64K X 16 bit) parts.
Apparently these weren't popular enough to either make it into the
"mainstream" or into over stock :-(.

Digi-key, Mouser, JameCo, Future-Active, Wyle, all came up empty. JDR's web
site claimed they had them but the order failed and said "call customer
service" :-0.

So there you go, a "valuable" IC for those with VLC's.

--Chuck
Received on Tue May 23 2000 - 02:11:34 BST