EEPROMs

[James Sweet]

So I got to thinking the other day, perhaps it'd be a good idea for those of
us who have readers to archive the data off of EEPROMs in sets we service,
seems like it'd be useful to create a database of them for all the common
chassis's, particularly the ones prone to corruption from other problems.
It'd still be nessesary to go into service mode and make tweaks on a lot of
sets, but at least it'd be easy to get a useable baseline to program a blank
chip with.

 

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So I got to thinking the other day, perhaps it'd be a good idea for those of
us who have readers to archive the data off of EEPROMs in sets we service,
seems like it'd be useful to create a database of them for all the common
chassis's, particularly the ones prone to corruption from other problems.
It'd still be nessesary to go into service mode and make tweaks on a lot of
sets, but at least it'd be easy to get a useable baseline to program a blank
chip with.

Wonderful idea. I wonder if the TV manfs would complain about
software copyright issues?

-Chris

 

[wolfhedd]

best thing to do it do the work first, then submit it, if they complain,
then find a workaround.
much appreciated would be this database.
wolf

 

[James Sweet]

best thing to do it do the work first, then submit it, if they complain,
then find a workaround.
much appreciated would be this database.
wolf

If someone can host them I'll start saving the EEPROM images of any set I
work on.

 

[wolfhedd]

i may be able to host them on a 10mb storage space, how small will they be?
email them directly to me, when i see more than one, ill create the site,
any ideas on the name? howabout eeprombase? of course that would end up
being www.home.earthlink.net/~eeprombase (not active yet, dont bother going
there)
wolf

 

[Ethan]

If someone can host them I'll start saving the EEPROM images of any set I
work on.

A friend was talking about doing the same thing for _ALL_ EPROMS in
existance (categories). He claims the material which EPROMs are made
from has a limited life span, and eventually they will start to go
bad. Very soon, for the earliest EPROMs. I haven't done research
myself, but I trust him.

I have the ability to host anything (own a hosting company) and enjoy
projects that benefit people at large.

I will look around and see if I can find something that fits my
expectations of a scalable solution for providing public access to
EPROM images. I think I can modify one of the PHP file collaboration
utilities to support file descriptions.