Rod, at 09:29 on Mar 27 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> The reason I ask is that the US govt has gone a bit weird
BG> lately (so what else is new?) and has just recently restricted
BG> V.34+ technology to the mainland US, which means that if
BG> anybody can come up with a V.34+ EPROM replacement for Austel
BG> V.34 Sportsters, they could stand to make a few bucks

RS> You were a bit vague about the package type, but you should be able
RS> to use a quite cheap eprom burner for the PC at US$140 class prices,
RS> with an adapter for the PLCC package if thats what it uses.

It's a quad flat-pack, with the pins folded beneath itself, and which is
then plugged into a raised hollow socket, which I think is PLCC (sod these
bloody IC acronyms, I started getting confused after DIL...).  :)

Anyway, ~US$140 ain't too horrific price-wise, I guess.

RS> I have the Needhams one at that price, with a 40 pin ZIFF socket. The 
RS> socket is basically purely mechanical on the end of the ribbon cable back to 
RS> the internal PC card with the electronics on it. So it should be relatively 
RS> easy to make a PLCC adapter yourself if the Sportster does use PLCC eproms.

Oh sure, the actual socket and its wiring are the least of my problems.

BG> (as long as they weren't caught).

RS> Could be a problem given the fact that the
RS> news would spread like wildfire presumably.

True, and I get the impression that those concerned would not look upon
such a venture too favourably at all.  Maybe not "send in a CIA
hit-man" stuff, but pretty close to it.  I trust the Yanks far less
than I do the Russians or the Chinese right now...

Regards, Bill

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