Anyone with a ROM-inator II programmer willing to program for me?

[Anonymous Freak]

I couldn't see myself wanting to reprogram it often/at all, so I didn't spend the $60+shipping on a programmer. But now I find myself wanting to change the ROM drive.  Anyone with a programmer willing to let me send them my ROM-inator II, have them program it, then send it back?  (I'd pay shipping both ways plus a few $ for your time, of course. And provide the disk image to write to it.)

I want to move my SE/30 server's System Folder + AppleShare 3 server folder to the ROM disk, then replace the hard drive with my SCSI2SD to host the actual file share.  Then I can disable the fan, and have a silent SE/30 file server!

For some reason, I thought that when you mounted the ROM drive in RAM drive mode, it made the image-on-ROM read/write, not just that it mounted the image into a RAM disk for that boot...  Also, I wish they had found a way to put the programmer circuitry on the ROM-inator II itself, but that probably would have driven the cost up considerably, considering the programmer already costs more than the ROM-inator itself...

 

[commodorejohn]

If you can get me plain ROM images for the chips, I'd be happy to reprogram them (though I will need to double-check that they're supported by my EEPROM burner - what specific variety of EEPROM are they?)

 

[Anonymous Freak]

It's the ROM-inator II, a SIMM-style ROM module for the SE/30 and Mac II series - you need BMoW's custom ROM SIMM programmer.

 

[commodorejohn]

Ah, I thought it was the one with socketed EEPROMs. Never mind, then.

 

[joethezombie]

I have one, and I'd certainly try and do it for you.  But I need to figure out how to use it first.  I bought it several months ago and have yet to take it out of the box. 

 

[joethezombie]

Well that was easy... What an awesome piece of kit!  Thanks BMOW!

@Anonymous Freak, if you want to proceed, PM me for my address.

 

[olePigeon]

The Revision A DougG3 version of the SIMM had socketed EPROMS.  I have two unassembled SIMMs, but I can't really use them.  Those sockets are almost impossible for me to solder.

 

[MidnightCommando]

olePigeon: forget the sockets, solder the QFP EEPROMs down directly, then they'll be compatible with the ROMinator anyway?

Alternatively, burn the ROMs and then solder 'em down, and don't screw up muahaha!