View Single Post
Old 4th Feb 2021, 8:25 pm   #473
ScottishColin
Octode
 
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Perth, Scotland
Posts: 1,821
Default Re: Non-working Commodore PET 3016

Quote:
Originally Posted by SiriusHardware View Post
I forgot to say earlier: The most common and best known Arduino is the 'Uno', but that does not have quite enough pins to service the 8 data + 12 address pins + 2 CE pins of one of those PET proms so you'd gave to go up to something like an Arduino Mega 2560.

https://store.arduino.cc/arduino-mega-2560-rev3

Although these, like all of the Arduino series, are great tools to have in your electronics toolbox the Mega is not especially cheap so I would maybe encourage looking at creative use of one of your Raspberry Pis instead, one with a 40-way GPIO header.

If you use a Pi you can put the known good binary files of all of the PROMs in a folder and have the reader program (written in Python?) 'verify' the code in the PROM it is reading against the code in the corresponding file.
Is this the same board? £11 if so.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Arduino-M...EAAOSwwjVetIEH
ScottishColin is offline