RE: Who owns a 8050/8250 with tandon drives?

From: William Levak <wlevak_at_SDF.ORG>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 00:48:21 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1404120047370.25538@faeroes.freeshell.org>
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Hoffmann-Vetter, Martin wrote:

> Hello William,
>
>>>>>> It seems the Tandon is near to the Matsushita drives.
>>>>>
>>>>> No, it's not near, your posted rom is indentically to 251474-01b.
>>>>> Is that true?
>>>
>>>> I compared them and they are identical.
>>>
>>> Did you know from where do you have this rom content? You name it as
>>> 8050_27t.seq, but without any part number. The 251474-01b seems to
>>> be a later patched version. So i would say, it must be exists an
>>> other tandon version.
>>
>> The ROM image came from an 8050 that was upgraded to DOS 2.7.  I
>> didn't write down the part number, but there is only one part listed
>> for the 8050 DOS 2.7 RRIOT.
>
> There exists an other part number for an at this time unseen RRIOT from the
> 8250LP. (You know, the 8250LP use in production an EPROM with an adaper
> board.) This unit use a DOS 2.7, too. But it has the RRIOT with a diabled
> ROM for the Matsushita drives on the adapter board. (Any other RRIOT will
> alos work.) If the control of a Tandon drive and a Matsushita drive is the
> same, it's possible that anyone has upgrade the 8050T with the RRIOT of the
> 8250LP.
>
> The other question is, why use the 8250LP (and 8296D) an adapter board and
> the mircopolis RRIOT if an Tandon/Matsushita RRIOT exits?

On a limited production run, an EPROM is cheaper.


> Question over question ... ;-)
>
> Martin
>
>
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