captainserial
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Lets say, hypothetically, I think I have one of these. How would I go about determining that for sure?
PEX. That's a rare bird you have there. And it.... boots??
identiPEx?Exactly the same sticker info/revision level as mine, it's another identiPEx, hap has a complete unit too, cased and booting.
I've got a bare board with the PLCC ROMs and no ROM DIMM. :-/
Any ADB keyboard should work fine, but yes, AppleDesign Keyboard is period correct.What keyboards were PowerMacs coming with at that time? AppleDesign?
I'm a little less than 3 hours from where you are, by car.If you don't mind me asking, where about in the world are you located? There's a good chance there's someone around you who could help dump a ROM.
In any case, I'm not sure if these can be dumped like a regular ROM but if they can, and yours boots, you can try using one of the various ROM dump utilities intended for use with programs like sheepshaver or you can try out "Flasher" I have here. Flasher's what came on my TAM prototype and seems to have been the internal flashing\dumping tool Apple used, at least on the TAM. File -> Save ROM will save a copy of the system ROM http://archive.compgeke.com/Programs/Apple/Misc%20Utilities/Gazelle%20Flasher/Flasher.sit
HRMMM? Has anyone ever seen or heard of a booting example of the uber-rare 3-slot PEx Manhattan? :?:It's even the 6 slot model!
You put a real bug in my ear with that bit about regular ROM Dumps. PEx' oddball PLCC low level boot ROM setup and what's actually on the firmware on the ROM DIMM itself which takes the PEx the rest of the way from startup chime to happy Mac and then Desktop could be problematic. "Flasher" piques my interest, it being internal to Apple. Might it have switches left over in the code from the PEx project etc. to handle this anamoly? How can a standard dump utility tell the difference between the memory blocks of PLCC and DIMM ICs in the PEx' meshuggeh setup?. . . I'm not sure if these can be dumped like a regular ROM but if they can, and yours boots, you can try using one of the various ROM dump utilities intended for use with programs like sheepshaver or you can try out "Flasher" I have here. Flasher's what came on my TAM prototype and seems to have been the internal flashing\dumping tool Apple used, at least on the TAM
Haven't heard of a booting one...HRMMM? Has anyone ever seen or heard of a booting example of the uber-rare 3-slot PEx Manhattan? :?: