good new/bad news on the VLC firmware

From: emanuel stiebler <emu_at_ecubics.com>
Date: Tue May 23 10:42:04 2000

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>

> The bad news is that the EPROMs are 27210's (64K X 16 bit) parts.

Which manufacturer ?

> Apparently these weren't popular enough to either make it into the
> "mainstream" or into over stock :-(.

Mine VLC have all 27c1024 in them. I ordered/got this parts without any
problems few weeks ago.

> 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.

You probably asked the wrong questions ;-)

cheers,
emanuel
Received on Tue May 23 2000 - 10:42:04 BST