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Reading the ROM on the Janome MemoryCraft 9000 memory cards

esophagooseesophagoose 11/15/2022 at 07:080 Comments
https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/6185371668403074614.file-1668403074585-589646513The culprit. It's a 34-pin PCMCIA card (type I?). On inside is a few pull-ups and decoupling cap and a non-descript ROM

https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/6990101668403480474.file-1668403480437-523631299I ohm'd out power and ground and it didn't fit the standard pinouts for ROMs ICs or PC card / PCMCIA connectors. But after a bunch of digging and looking at old memory ICs, I found this:

https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/4836591668403771644.file-1668403771630-260888991Power and ground matched up and after ohm'ing out the rest of the pins, I'm fairly confident it's the right part: - BYTE is hard-tied to ground means D8-D14 are high-Z and are not connected on the memory card - Pull-ups are present on CE and OE - A19 and A20 are not connected which makes sense, probably a lower capacity ROM


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