25-03-2025, 01:14 PM
Ah thanks I thought the DS S-80 was a clone of a System 80, will need to go back and do some reading.
I agree the sockets are of no use what so ever, and only someone who likes to fail would ever try to use them, but the roms are all good, except one, the first one I went to dump via my Retro chip tester and I read the manual wrong on what chip to select it as and killed it.
I've dumped and backed up the rest and have tested all the logic and RAM chips and they are all good.
I still have EPROMS I programmed back with my C64 in the 80s that are still fine, even one or two that the sticky paper covers over the window have fallen off, as long as they aren't left in direct sunlight they are generally still fine.
I agree the sockets are of no use what so ever, and only someone who likes to fail would ever try to use them, but the roms are all good, except one, the first one I went to dump via my Retro chip tester and I read the manual wrong on what chip to select it as and killed it.
I've dumped and backed up the rest and have tested all the logic and RAM chips and they are all good.
I still have EPROMS I programmed back with my C64 in the 80s that are still fine, even one or two that the sticky paper covers over the window have fallen off, as long as they aren't left in direct sunlight they are generally still fine.