Hi Brian,
That is an interesting find. Makes me wonder what things people will
dig up 50, 100 or even 1000 years from now and say "Hmm, wonder what
this was for?"
Ken
On 6/19/17 8:19 AM, Brian White wrote:
Encountered an odd one this weekend. A custom option rom that says
HOOT.BA <http://HOOT.BA> on it's label, and uses the *elegant* EME
Systems 27C256 option rom adapter.
When you run it (using either the 2 lines on the label or the standard
"CALL 63012") It launches into some program, but doesn't leave any .co
or .ba installed in the main menu. It does leave a couple of .do, but
they seem to be data for the program, not documents.
Reading the various strings in the rom, it seems to be some kind of
weather monitoring util. It mentions something called OWL or OWL2 a
lot, looks like it has support to use a RAMPAC, and connects to
something on a pc via serial cable (called an owl cable), and can dial
up something with the modem and upload something via xmodem, which in
turn implies there's an xmodem implementation in there somewhere.
It looks like a very special-purpose thing, that's for sure.
I dumped the rom and disassembled the package to get some clear pics
of the EME adapter.
ROM
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bys6eLbSbYyhdTFIR2ZXNENrRkE
EME adapter
https://goo.gl/photos/AaqKUGoY6oGEZdxM6
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bkw
