DEC ROMs [was Re: old terminals...]

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 09:45 -0700, Glen Slick wrote:

> Is there already a non-DEC controller firmware archive somewhere?  If
> not, do you have any interest in adding relevant non-DEC controller
> firmware?

I have a Baydel multi-function board that has lost one of its EPROMs
(just reads back as all 0xFF).  I contacted Baydel, and got a polite
email from the chap that designed the board originally saying he'd just
slung his prototype and design docs, thinking "oh well, can't hold onto
stuff forever".  Should have got there quicker, as is so often the case.

I won't go into the sorry tale of the K-reg Citroën AX at the local
scrapyard, MOT fail because of some simple simple things, pristine
condition in and out (and better than my own AX).  When I got to the
yard, it was shut 'cos the guy was out posting off the Certificate of
Destruction...

Gordon