Difficult to read as some of the characters have worn off... Looks like:
EP1810LC-20T A9119 Yellow gold card with just the name Gold Card. Not working. Will look at my super goldcard eventually. F. On 2013-03-10, at 13:53, Dave Park wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was wondering if you could take a minute out of your day to help us? > We're trying to solve a problem by better understanding it. This requires > that we collect information about what works, to see how big a pool of > components is. > > If you have a Gold Card or Super Gold Card, we'd like some information > about it. In particular, we'd like to know the date and model of the Altera > chip your card has. > > What we already know is that some time in the late 90s, Altera made a > revision to the chip which made it unsuitable for using in SGCs. We're > trying to work out the complete date range of that chip as used on SGCs so > we can see how broad the date range is that we can buy from. > > Also, we know the Gold Card used some slower versions of the IC, but many > also used the faster version, which is suitable for re-use in a Super Gold > Card. > > If you could please just remove your GC/SGC from your system and look at > the Altera chip, you will see markings (which may be under a sticker saying > "INGOT #") like this: > > ALTERA > EP1810LC-25T > C9301 > > Could you please write these markings down? > > Next, if it's a Gold Card, please turn it over and note if it says Gold > Card, Gold Card Issue 2, or Gold Card 3? Also, could you follow this link: CPU > Toolkit <http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/tk/cputk.zip> and see if your card can run > at 24 MHz? > > If it's a Super Gold Card you do not need to do this. > > If you have the original SAFT 40LF220 red battery on your card, can you > please check the date code, which will be in the format YY MM. > > Finally, there's an EPROM on your card. Could you please write down what it > says on the label? If you know that this has been changed since the card > was made, please could you add a note of that? > > Next, could you email that information to d...@sinclairql.com please? > > Now would be a good time to blow away the dust and check all socketed chips > are seated properly before re-assembling and testing your system :) > > We will collate the date ranges for each model, and get a much clearer > picture of which versions/dates were used in which cards. > > We will publish the results. > > Thank you for doing this for us. We really appreciate it. > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
