[Coco] 512K EEPROM...or 4MB!!?

[Salvador Garcia]

4MB is overkill. But this is coming from a person that likes to boil his eggs using a nuclear reactor <eg>. Personally, I would go for it, taking into account cost of the 4MB vs the 512KB chip. Regards, Salvador
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chad H <chadbh74 at hotmail.com>
To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Dec 8, 2015 8:23 pm
Subject: [Coco] 512K EEPROM...or 4MB!!?

Today I was looking at EEPROM chips and stumbled upon a 4MB chip that meetsall the criteria for what I could consider to be a candidate for a EEPROMboard.  My current boards support up to 512MB via PLCC32 or DIP32 socket butthe 4MB would require some creative adapting with its TSOP40 layout.  Inorder to make practical, I could design a tiny adapter board to solder itto, giving it legs so to speak, that could be plugged into the EEPROM boardor a special adapter for programmers such as the TL866 or GQ-4X.  I'mwondering though if this is 'too much'.  We can fit quiet a lot of.ROM/.CCC/.BIN stuff in the 512K chips already, but 8 times as much?   Thenagain.is there such a thing as too much space? I've got a itch to persue this and see if I can make some sort of'Mega-Flash' version of the EEPROM boards around this chip.  I could evenkeep the existing External Controller interface.  Because it uses serialaddress control, no changes would have to be made there.   I'm just not sureif I could even find enough games and utilities in .BIN/.ROM/.CCC format toeven fill such a chip. Thoughts anyone? - Chad Hhttp://sites.google.com/site/cbhlab101/ -- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco