[volt-nuts] 3458A - To Modify or Not To Modify?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <C955030251514D26AE5A973DBA8D29DD at cardiac5f772ce>, "J. L. Trantham" 
writes:

>However, if I am going 'all in' on damage to the board by placing sockets
>for the EPROM and the DS1220Y, why not go 'all the way' and also do the
>other DALLAS chips?

Well, to minimize the risk that you mess up one of the solderpads for
instance.

>Interestingly, I got four HM62256LP-10 chips off theBay, inserted them in
>U123-U126, and, miraculously, 'OPT 1,0' appeared. 

It's not magic, it is code that looks for RAM in the relevant
memory-range and says "I have OPT 1" if it finds it :-)

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