This is incredible @trag !!!!!!
Could you P L E A S E send me one for testing? 🥹 My rom is already bad so this would be perfect!
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Could you P L E A S E send me one for testing? 🥹 My rom is already bad so this would be perfect!
This is awesome! Thanks everyone for the effort! I will pull my two ANS out of storage in anticipation of further shenanigans!
Let's let ClassicHasClass do his testing first, to determine whether I made any fundamental errors. I would hate to start assembling these for folks only to find that every single one has some fatal problem.
I made four because that way, if they all fail, it's probably a procedure flaw. If one or two fail, that's probably just an assembly error.
When I was making Rev. C Beige G3 ROMs (over 100) my failure rate was about 1 in 20. But I'm older and my eyes and hands are not as good as they were 20 years ago...
There shouldn't be any problems. I've used this board to make ROMs for the 7200 through the PEx. But there can be odd things. For example, on all the X500/X600 and Power Computing ROMs I examined, pin 122 is tied to ground and it doesn't seem to do anything. It's not connected to anything on the DIMM. But on the Beige G3, if you leave pin 122 tied to GND, then the Beige G3 will not see more than 512MB of RAM. I guess it's signaling a register in the XPC106.
Hopefully there isn't weirdium like that in the ANS.
Anyway, after CHC has tested, and assuming good results, I'll put you at the top of the list. Sad for an ANS to be sitting ROMless.
I'll be sending out the ROMs I make untested, so I'll ask for patience if there are any individual failures. It's too big of a chore to dig my ANS out and get it going (probably have to recap the LB). Plus I'm not sure I left a CPU card in it. Those may be in a box in the attic, because the last time I really messed with it I was trying to get a Mac to ANS CPU adapter working.
Found in my notes from about 20 years ago when I was pinning out various ROM modules by hand, that Pin 28 of the ANS ROM is tied to GND through a 10K resistor.
I hope that isn't necessary for them to work because the modules I made don't do that...
I think I see a way to add a bodge, if necessary, but the modules would need to make another round trip.
Anyone with an ANS ROM handy want to take a close look at pin 28 on your module?