![]() ![]() ![]() At the time I could spin BC, DE and HL pretty fluently, a hazy hazy memory now. The T102 was also at the heart of my original OWL data loggers. And I also manufactured RAM expansions called the "extram" and the "XR4" and the RAMpak, and provided operating system extensions to used the additional banked memory. It used a special circuit board material called "bendflex" that has since been discontinued. We use a bridge from the programmer to an SOIC clamp to program the chip, and the large plated through holes on the edge of the circuit board are cut through to expose 28 half-moon contacts that press down into the option socket.īack in its heyday, I made a different design of option ROM adapter called ROMBO that I sold a lot of through the magazines. Not only is it a proprietary deep socket, but in their great wisdom Rat Shack switched the pin connections so that it doesn't correspond to the standard 27C256. ![]() I provide Rick with the OTP soic eproms mounted on a carrier that fits into the option ROM socket. Yes, amazing, there are still a lot of them out there running printing presses and laundromats and the in the cruisers of small police departments in the desks of a certain breed of news reporters and in classrooms. He has an ongoing evening business in buying and selling Tandy 100, 102 and 200s, and in providing add-on ROMs. This programmer is for my friend, Rick Hanson, who operates Club 100. ![]()
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