[Coco] WICO Command Trackball

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Mar 6 10:24:31 EST 2007


On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Torsten Dittel wrote:
>> Motorola second sourced an IntEl microcontroller?  Now that's
>> interesting.
>
>I guess it's kind of an 8752 with internal ROM or PROM and clock. Any
>other hints from the name "SC87152P"?
>
>> I have a universal device programmer that can program and read 8751s
>> in a 40 pin DIP.  Unfortunately that won't do you any good unless you
>> want to pull out the chip and send it to me.  And we'd certainly want
>> to confirm that it would have a compatible pinout.  Also, it is
>> possible that there is a security fuse in there that will prevent the
>> program from being read out anyway.
>
>Thanks for that kind offer but to be honest I don't dare to ship the
>chip to the US because it might get damaged/lost and it's the only one I
>have. Maybe this device will help with the task:
>
>http://reinerjansen.de/4flash/english_version/hauptteil_english_version.
>html

Now that's slick!  And the driver soft is free too.  This looks like the 
ideal 1 off do it yourself project. I didn't follow that link, but I 
assume the artwork download to build it is also free.  Any takers?

>Best regards,
>Torsten
>
>
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Cheers, Gene
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