Hi Cory, I'm glad I don't care anymore. ;-) I've since foud out that it's a ROM chip. Even if I could find one I wouldn't have the data to program it.
Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Cory Papenfuss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 6:55 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: It's Alive!_Was_ IC Chip inside the F28-80/3.5-4.5?? > > > On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Don Sanderson wrote: > > > Touched up the solder joints on the IC, > > re-assembled, cleaned and...It Lives! > > Always wanted to try one of these, now > > I get to for $10.50. WooHoo! > > > > Don > > > Congrats. In retrospect, probably the most likely thing, since > ICs rarely go bad. > > Unfortunately your original question is probably unanswerable. > It's likely a custom IC cooked up for Pentax, or best case it's a > general-purpose programmable logic type device that's been cooked up with > proprietary info. Neither case is very encouraging. > > Fortunately, you don't care anymore... :) > > -Cory > > -- > > ************************************************************************* > * Cory Papenfuss * > * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * > * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * > ************************************************************************* >
