Epson PF10 problems

Roy J. Tellason rtellason at blazenet.net
Fri Dec 23 13:41:08 CST 2005


On Thursday 22 December 2005 08:15 pm, Tony Duell wrote:
> Other (related) things that I am looking for....
>
> 1) The plastic ROM carriers.

As am I,  as well.  Assuming I can get the thing working again,  that is.

> These are plastic mouldings that you put a DIP-packaged EPROM into, then
> crimp the pins over. The same carriers were used in the Tandy M100, and I
> think 24-pin versions were used in that Panasonic hand-held machine that
> gets mentioned here. I need the 28 pin ones, I think Molex once made them.

Interesting tidbit that they were used in those other machines,  I didn't know 
that.

> 2) Is the PX4 technical manual on the net anywhere (I've found the PX8
> one already).

Do you have a link handy?

> The thing I need most at the moment is the pinout of the cartridge
> connector. I have a 3rd party 512K (!) RAMdisk module there which doesn't
> seem to work.

First I've heard of any third-party stuff for that machine as well.

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