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13th Sep 2022, 8:24 pm | #1 |
Hexode
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Greater Manchester, UK.
Posts: 496
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Retro Chip Tester
Happy to have my Retro Chip Tester kit built and up and running now.
Works a treat. I sometimes get early 80’s computers or various processor boards from 80’ gear for repair and this tester can check early RAM chips and read/program early multi-rail EPROMs which most programmers cannot support. This was necessary for the repair of the memory board shown, it’s old TMS2716 (3 rail) EPROMs had some corroded pins, at least 3 pins were missing. These were the ceramic package with the gold plated edge-bonded pins. I tried soldering pins on however the joint has no strength and any slight force takes the gold plating off leaving a difficult to solder substrate. I managed to get some thin wire tacked on temporarily, and was able to read the contents of the EPROMs and then program some replacements. I bought the expansion PCB set for the RCT which got me the EPROM programmer boards, but this set also includes adapters for reading and programming 80’s game cartridges, not sure if I will get to use those, but who knows…useful to have on hand I guess. Regards Chris |
13th Sep 2022, 9:37 pm | #2 |
Heptode
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Worthing, West Sussex, UK.
Posts: 992
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Re: Retro Chip Tester
Wow! well done mate.
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30th Oct 2022, 12:35 pm | #3 | |
Pentode
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Bromley, Kent, UK.
Posts: 234
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Re: Retro Chip Tester
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I have a shopping cart for a German vender (Reichelt.de), but curious where you ordered the parts for your one, or did it all come supplied ? Many thanks, |
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