Date   : Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:20:18 +0000
From   : afra@... (Phill Harvey-Smith)
Subject: OT: ZX80 ROM ?

Rob wrote:
> 2008/12/28 Phill Harvey-Smith <afra@...>:
> Hi Phil, thanks for the note.

Phill :)

> It's made me check what exactly Mark sent me, and despite my
> recollection of discussing 2532s, he sent me a 2732..  No big deal, as
> I can knock up an adapter quickly enough, but it's handy to know in

 From what I recall there's not room for an adapter, if you mean a 
little converter board, but if you bend the apropreate pins so that they 
don't plug into the socket and then install wires from the pins to the 
apropreate pins on the underside of the ZX80 board, that should do the 
trick.

> advance that I'll need to!  At the moment, though, first task is to
> find the blighter... we've had builders in, so everything got moved in
> a hurry, and I think the ZX80 is now buried in boxes at the back of a
> cupboard somewhere...  at least I've already found a cache of tape
> recorders for it!

:)

The other thing that is worth noting is that the ZX81 rom will work fine 
in a ZX80, when I first had my 80, it didn't have a rom, so to verify 
that it worked, I dropped an 81 rom in ther and it fired up first time, 
though obviously as a ZX81.

Cheers.

Phill.


-- 
Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.