Re: (clug-talk) Computer Recycling: We need ROMs

[Roy Souther]

True, but I don't know any easy way to explain how people can tell because there are some that can not be programmed mostly in older systems. I don't know if any system having the newer chips would be going for scap, but it could happen.

If people could just save the chips, we can pick out the programmable ones later.

On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 09:45, Mark Lane wrote:

At 09:12 AM 11/6/02, you wrote:
>Before you trash your old computer look at the BIOS chip. If the BIOS chip 
>has a small window under the sticker we need it. These chips can be 
>reprogrammed and used to make disk-less XTerminals. I don't know about 
>i186 or i286 but most i386 and up have these chips.

Just a note, you should be able to reprogram most bios chips even if they 
aren't UV-erasable. A lot of newer bioses are EEPROMs so they too can be 
reprogrammed with a PROM burner.

Roy Souther www.SiliconTao.com Changing the way people do business.

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