Ethan, good advice. I also think that since many of these chips are rare,
it's worth the effort to pull them out of their sockets, drop them into a
burner and copy them out to hex files for archival storage. Does anybody do
this as a practice, or am I overly paranoid? --Patrick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
> Behalf Of Ethan Dicks
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 11:21 AM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: TI-2532 (was Re: The ACE is recovering :-))
>
>
>
> --- Philip Pemberton <philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> > Thankfully both ROMs (TMS2532s - TI's clone of the 2732) seem to be OK.
>
> Good thing, too, because the 2532 is not pin-compatible with the 2732.
> It's pin-compatible with the 2332 mask-programmed ROM.
>
> The 2532 is familiar to PET owners - it's what you need to drop right
> into the open sockets next to the BASIC ROMs. My 2001-N has three:
> BASIC-AID, a replacement machine-language monitor, PAICS BASIC Toolkit
> and Eastern House Software's ROM-Rabbit - twelve throbbing K of firmware
> goodness. :-)
>
> I was lucky enough to fall into a carton of boards that someone else
> pulled from some unknown brand of dumb terminal - a 6502 on every board,
> plus several 2532s and some wierd stuff like EA-3400 EAROMs. Bonus:
> every chip was socketed!
>
> I always inspect stuff from the 1980s for 2532s. They were much less
> commonly used than the 2732s. OTOH, if you only need 2K, the 2716
> works fine in a PET.
>
> -ethan
>
>
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