Hi

Also verified that
* PEEK(63789) returns Year (ones place)
* PEEK(63790) returns Year (tens place)

Just like the US and UK model in your table.

On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 11:24 AM Rune Devik <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Unfortunately PEEK(1) returns 167 on my Norwegian model as well. Which
> means that it's probably based on the American version and that is also
> indicated by the sticker on the back where it says "Custom mfd. in Japan
> for Tandy Corporation". But as stated before the date format is DD/MM/YY.
>
> I'll send the full dump of the ROM as soon as I have had the time to do it!
>
> Regards,
> Rune Devik
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 10:34 AM B 9 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Did you send the value from PEEK? That file contains this repeating
>> sequence:
>>
>> ```
>> 00
>> 01
>> 02
>> 03
>> 04
>> …
>> FC
>> FD
>> FE
>> FF
>> ```
>>
>> Oddly symmetric indeed!
>>
>> —b9
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 4:39 PM Rune Devik <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> After reducing the speed to 1200 bauds I finally managed to dump the rom
>>> but I think this script dumps the *optional* rom? And not the "main"
>>> rom? It dumped the data but it seemed strangely symetric when I saw the
>>> data pass by lie it was repeating itself over and over so not sure there's
>>> actually any info there. Which makes sense as there is no optional rom
>>> installed. Or I might be completely wrong and this is it. I could not make
>>> sense of it in a hex editor either... But this is not my expertise so any
>>> help appreciated :)
>>>
>>> At least the file is exactly the correct size as it should be.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 7:05 PM Joshua O'Keefe <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> > On Jan 22, 2026, at 7:43 AM, Joshua O'Keefe <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm fairly sure I've seen software to do this posted here on the list
>>>> in the past. I'd be willing to bet Stephen A. has something on hand because
>>>> this is very much his wheelhouse.
>>>>
>>>> Curiosity got the better part of me. Stephen does have such a utility
>>>> posted[1] that ought to work with a USB/RS-232 bridge on the other end. It
>>>> produces a hex dump rather than binary data, so you might need to poke
>>>> around for a utility to decode ASCII hex pairs to binary.
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://www.club100.org/memfiles/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=Steve%20Adolph/ROM2S
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> mvh,
>>> Rune Devik
>>>
>>
>
> --
> mvh,
> Rune Devik
>


-- 
mvh,
Rune Devik

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