Subject: Re: serial console on a 425e
To: Michael Wolfson <mw34@cornell.edu>
From: Kevin Read <obsidian@gmx.de>
List: port-hp300
Date: 05/13/2000 18:29:21
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Michael Wolfson wrote:

> At 4:57 PM +0200 5/13/00, Kevin Read wrote:
> 
> :)Ok, how do I get the ROM on to a disk?
> 
> Well, this requires two important pieces of hardware:  a PROM burner and a
> 425e.
> 
> You (or anyone else on this list) need to open the 425e case and pull out
> the ROM.
> 
> If it's anything like the 425t I've got, it's an Intel 40 (?) pin DIP chip
> (two rows of pins) that's one of the only socketed chips on the motherboard
> -- everything else is soldered down.
> 
> Remove this chip carefully.
> 
> Put it in a PROM burner and read the contents of this PROM.  S-Record
> format would be best.  You may need a local expert to help you here.
> 
> Someone out there with a PROM burner might offer to let someone with a 425e
> ship them the PROM for reading.  I'd offer, but I don't have a PROM burner
> or a 425e.


Well, I've got 2 425e's here. And I'd volunteer to send one (or just the
PROM of one) to anybody who would want to do something useful with it.

I live in Germany, but sending just the PROM overseas would surely be
quite cheap.