Re: Tech: Lunar Lander, missing chips?

From: Jess Askey <jess_at_magenta.com>
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 19:06:46 EST

Lunar Lander also has the option for the program ROM's to exist in many smaller PROM's
instead of the larger Mask ROM's (24-pin). So if your big sockets are empty but if all
those smaller 16-pin sockets are populated, then your board is an earlier one with all the
PROM memory instead.

Neil Bradley wrote:
>
> > I recently picked up a nice Lunar Lander. Upon inspecting the PCB,
> > there are 4 separate 24 pin sockets at 1-B, 1-C, 1-D/E 1-F (all in
> > bottom far left corner of the board with pinouts pointing up). They
> > are all currently empty, are they supposed to be populated?
>
> Uh... yeah, those are the ROMs. ;-) Only mildy important. ;-)
>
> -->Neil
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