TC01 diagnostic ROM

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Lardo Boffin
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TC01 diagnostic ROM

Post by Lardo Boffin » Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:50 am

I was watching a Mike’s Retro Tech repair video (https://youtu.be/hf25jZv-TB0) on YouTube and noticed that he was using a diagnostic ROM in his TC01.

A quick google and here is the source:

https://github.com/fdivitto/TatungEinst ... icFirmware

It looks straight forward - burn it to an EPROM, insert into the spare ROM slot and switch on. It then does some tests and reports its findings.
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Re: TC01 diagnostic ROM

Post by vanpeebles » Fri Apr 17, 2020 12:29 pm

That does look good!
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Re: TC01 diagnostic ROM

Post by MikeDHalliday » Sun Apr 26, 2020 2:05 pm

Yes, the diagnostic rom works really well, as you can see from my Youtube video! :) - Thanks for sharing the link to the video. The Einstein is still running well amd is used almost every week! The diagnostic rom helped ensuring there was nothing else wrong with the machine once I had ressurected it.

Mike.
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Re: TC01 diagnostic ROM

Post by Lardo Boffin » Sun Apr 26, 2020 6:50 pm

MikeDHalliday wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 26, 2020 2:05 pm
 Yes, the diagnostic rom works really well, as you can see from my Youtube video! :) - Thanks for sharing the link to the video. The Einstein is still running well amd is used almost every week! The diagnostic rom helped ensuring there was nothing else wrong with the machine once I had ressurected it.

Mike.
Thanks for posting the video (and the others)! I would not have picked up on the ROM otherwise.
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Re: TC01 diagnostic ROM

Post by chrisv » Wed Dec 16, 2020 6:32 pm

Sorry to resurrect an old thread but...what equivalent for the 2764 did you use (or did you source an original)?

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Re: TC01 diagnostic ROM

Post by Lardo Boffin » Tue Dec 22, 2020 11:46 am

MikeDHalliday wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 26, 2020 2:05 pm
 Yes, the diagnostic rom works really well, as you can see from my Youtube video! :) - Thanks for sharing the link to the video. The Einstein is still running well amd is used almost every week! The diagnostic rom helped ensuring there was nothing else wrong with the machine once I had ressurected it.

Mike.
Does the ROM do any tests of the Pipe functionality?
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