good new/bad news on the VLC firmware

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Tue May 23 14:32:41 2000

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Chuck McManis wrote:

> 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.

You might check with ACP in the LA area. They have been known to have
some odd ones now and then.

                                                 - don
> --Chuck
>
>
Received on Tue May 23 2000 - 14:32:41 BST