I don't have much in the way of hard evidence for you, but there's a huge amount of random beliefs and occasional conspiracy theories about Rocket compatibility on the Internet, and it's best not to believe anything you read or are told unless you or the person telling you has recent definitive...
I have both 030-0687-B and 030-1246-A and they will be scanned as part of my ongoing scanning effort when I get to that shelf. Please feel free to poke me in my accountability thread if I get quiet on the subject, here...
This is great, thankyou!
What really tickles me about this is that I was going to see if I could build something like this as a joke (using S/PDIF optics); the fact that someone actually built it as a product is kind of wonderful.
I wonder how much of a discount they got on their equipment...
yeah but aarch32 is the king of assembly languages and everything else is downhill from there ;-)
(Sorry, I'll stop derailing the thread, just wanted to annoy people)
Yup, understandable; always best to check something works properly with the official software first.
For what it is worth, I too use a TL866 II+, and at this point I exclusively use that minipro tool; it works great for me.
Oh, yeah, those are nifty.
If you don't mind the command line, you don't need to have Windows installed to drive that: look at https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/minipro
Eric Woo has an excellent reputation and the stuff I've previously got from him has been sound.
He's not immune to his suppliers sending him crap - but then who is? - but he seems to deal with that situation well when it occurs. And that's about al one can ask.
Yes, if it's a 128k those use Micron DRAMs that are a bit notable for self-destructing. You may wish to replace them all, or if you don't, you may wish to keep (non-Micron) spares for when the remaining micron ones disintegrate.
I think I got mine from ebay, but it was so long ago I can't...