As I said earlier (did I reply to the list ???):

If the 425e also has the Apollo personality in its PROM, then a stupid serial link
and kermit/whatever is sufficient. Just dump the PROM out, mangle it through a
script (must dig a little in my stuff) and there you have your *.bin.

Michael

CaptnZilog@aol.com wrote:

> > > some time ago (or rather more years ;) someone offered up to read the 425e
> > > boot prom if it were shipped to them. Is this person still around
> > > somewhere? I'm still willing to ship the little thing, if someone can read
> > > those things. And I've still got a working 425e to ship to developers, if
> > > someone is interested in implementing framebuffer *HINT HINT* ;)
>
> Ahhh.. that would have been me.
>
> Sorry about that... at the time, I opened up the machine and discovered that
> the 425e boot prom, at least in my machine (and I presume all of them) is a
> PLCC type chip and not a standard DIP IC type.  I don't have an adaptor for
> my prom programmer to be able to read these.
>
> However, I do happen to have gotten a PLCC type socket that will hold it in
> the meantime, and have been meaning to wire up some kind of adaptor.  Gotta
> dig up my data book so I know how the PLCC pinouts map to the DIP pinouts,
> and hook the thing up.  (all the places I've seen adaptors, they want like
> $150+ for one of them, and I just don't feel like spending that kind of money
> for a damn socket adaptor).
>