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to: Bill Grimsley
from: Keith Richardson
date: 1996-03-28 18:00:54
subject: Copying EPROMs

On (26 Mar 96) Bill Grimsley wrote to Keith Richardson...



 BG> Keith, at 22:01 on Mar 24 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...



BG> The EPROMs I had in mind are probably only electrically erasable (if

BG> at all) as they have no window on them.  An EEPROM perhaps?  I also

BG> presume that some of them are only programmable the once, and can't be

BG> erased after that, right?



KR> most probably one time programmable, same as the ones with the window,

KR> only without it (: the thing to do with these is to copy their contents

KR> into another chip, that aint a bad idea anyway, you dont really want to

KR> change the original.



 BG> And even if I did, I wouldn't know where to begin.  The reason I ask

 BG> is that the US govt has gone a bit weird lately (so what else is new?)

 BG> and has just recently restricted V.34+ technology to the mainland US,

 BG> which means that if anybody can come up with a V.34+ EPROM replacement

 BG> for Austel V.34 Sportsters, they could stand to make a few bucks (as

 BG> long as they weren't caught).



no problem to copy them, i have access to a burner that can handle most

chips, but, being at work, i don't think that they would like me mass

producing illegal roms (:



                        Keith



... The difference between democracy and anarchy is responsibilty.



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