Dumped a bunch of random BIOS chips from old ISA/PCI cards/mobos- Need advice

[GearTechWolf]

Interesting... what Televideo terminal is that? Did it have MS-DOS support?

I'm... Not sure actually! All I have is the mainboard, a piece I've had since my late childhood, before I kept any records or marked parts as to what they came from. (still not great at that, to be honest)
Anyhow, a more useful answer is- These are the markings: TELEVIDEO SYSTEMS INC., 965 P/N 132970-00 REV. G-H-G (not sure on the H there, badly faded paper label)
Further markings: Barcode label- M965X10901157CG and Silkscreen: X715A448-2 (no other pertinent marking as far as I can tell)
List of socketed chips: U16 - SILICON LOGIC 271582-00 (c) 1105A9006 (PLCC-84); U21 - MOSEL MS6264L-10PC 9031AN1 (DIP-28);
U24/25 - ST MK48H64LN-70 99012 (DIP-28); U14 - S SCN2672TC5N40 KHT7316 9018KA (DIP-40); U10 - CMDu G65SC816P-5 8836 (DIP-40);
U9 - ST M27512-2F1 89021 (DIP-28); U8 - ST M27256-2F1 89019EN (DIP-28); U7 - HYUNDAI HY6264LP-10 9024D KOREA (DIP-28);
U6/5 - UM6551A 9021S (DIP-28); U4/3 - MOTOROLA MC1489AP RQFV9020 (DIP-14); U2/1 - S MC1488N FHK6778/FHN3269 9035VJ (DIP-14).
Non-socketed chips are mostly 74-logic, aside from IC 401 - TDA1170N 89023 (DIP-14-ISH?), U101 - TI TL494CN 9018BR PORTUGAL (DIP-16), and U201 - CQY 80N 006 A TFK4 0883 (DIP-6, makers-mark: VDE, likely an opto-coupler)
Has two DB25 ports on the back, labelled MAIN and AUX, and an RJ11 jack for the keyboard.
CRT was built-in and there were no external adjustments for it, aside from a slider for something. (brightness or contrast, maybe?)
Sadly, unless I sent it in for decapping and possible repair, the U9 ROM is unrecoverable.
I recall, as a child, playing with the board and trying to get it to function while hooked up to its CRT sans the case.
I'd removed (some/all of?) the socketed chips and I reinstalled that ROM upside-down because the label is printed at the opposite end to the other one.
When I turned it on the clear window lit up like a light-bulb! I turned it off, reversed it, and tried again, but it was toast.
Don't recall if anything displayed on the screen at all. I've since lost all but the board to improper storage/breakage.
Anyhow, please let me know if you do get a positive identification on it! Might have a (small) chance at resurrecting it then.

 

[GearTechWolf]

AH! It's a Televideo model 965 terminal.

 

[Geri]

And how can I ID them if they don't list copyright data or have surviving paper labels

md5sum

 

[ayandon]

Post them in minuszerodegrees.net and also in GitHub.

 

[Al Kossow]

do you have any idea which HP terminal the eprom came from or what the part number was on the label?
it looks like it might be a different version than what I have for the 900/94

 

[GearTechWolf]

do you have any idea which HP terminal the eprom came from or what the part number was on the label?
it looks like it might be a different version than what I have for the 900/94

No luck searching using markings/labels, but the rear ports match the 700-series! (700/60 and 700/96 both have the same port layout, 700/32 doesn't)
Now I really wish I'd kept the CRT, as I don't recall if it was white or amber phosphor. (don't recall if the CRT was saveable/unbroken when I got it, either)

 

[GearTechWolf]

Post them in minuszerodegrees.net and also in GitHub.

Ah, good point! Hadn't considered using GitHub for that. Would be a much more concise way to arrange them as I add to the collection!

 

[ayandon]

Ah, good point! Hadn't considered using GitHub for that. Would be a much more concise way to arrange them as I add to the collection!

Use enough text description so that one can search and find in GitHub.
It will be a GREAT community contribution.

 

[GearTechWolf]

Here's the GitHub then: https://github.com/LupineArchivist/BIOS-dumps
(I'll add the rest of the files and create/update the text-files later, feeling a bit off and low-energy tonight, might have caught a bug again)

 

[ayandon]

Here's the GitHub then: https://github.com/LupineArchivist/BIOS-dumps
(I'll add the rest of the files and create/update the text-files later, feeling a bit off and low-energy tonight, might have caught a bug again)

Put your BIOS-chip dumps-1.txt and BIOS-chip dumps-2.txt contents in the Git Descriptions (no formatting needed) for better search....

 

[GearTechWolf]

Put your BIOS-chip dumps-1.txt and BIOS-chip dumps-2.txt contents in the Git Descriptions (no formatting needed) for better search....

I think I've done that now... GitHub is an unfamiliar interface!

 

[ayandon]

I think I've done that now... GitHub is an unfamiliar interface!

Great contribution.

 

[GearTechWolf]

Found a cache of video-cards in a box recently, dumped all the BIOS chips for you folks.
Mostly 16-bit ISA, pair of PCI and a pair of AGP cards. Included in the ISA bunch are three Realtek VGA cards! Never knew Realtek did video cards.
Also got three different ISA Oak Tech cards, an ISA AST Research card, the two Diamond PCI cards, and the two unmarked/off-brand Nvidia(?) AGP cards.
There's only seven unique cards with all the duplicates, so the only reason you get nine dumps is because some cards have HI/LO BIOS.
Anyhow, enjoy! These cards were all pretty clean so it was easy to get clean dumps, aside from one that threw up a bad checksum error despite verifying correct multiple times. Please let me know if anything looks funky!
Once I get a good power-supply put together for the 386 board I recently rescued from the garage (and its expired Varta battery) I can test all the ISA cards! (well, almost all, one Oak Tech card is missing an entire chip and has some minor trace damage)
That's all for now! (extra card/chip data in the text-file as usual)
And yes, I updated the GitHub too!

 

[GearTechWolf]

Small 386 update, dumped the HI/LO BIOS chips from my Unknown (Infonet?) CPU-3216SX 386 board that I've been working on, almost have it fixed.
I think I got a clean read on these, as the chips are in great shape, but I can never tell with these HI/LO ones, they just look like semi-intelligible gibberish in the hex-editor.
Have a look and let me know, please!

 

[GearTechWolf]

Truly small update today. A Trident VGA BIOS and a Brother Intellifax 2400NL BIOS.
Enjoy!

 

[GearTechWolf]

Going by the IC list here my HP terminal main-board is from a 700/96.
The firmware is available here too, so that's great!
The same site has the firmware for my Televideo 965 terminal: TVI-965_firmware
Now I can replace the fried EPROM on it!
Have to find a CRT for each of them if I ever want to fix them, plus a casing and other repairs.
Only have the original yoke for one of them and it's missing some magnets.
Missing the neck connector for one as well. Not sure if they're worth fixing, but I'd like to get the boards working at least.

 

[GearTechWolf]

Picked up some EPROMs off Ebay for curiosity's sake, one is from a Galil DMC-210 motion controller and the other four are from a Varian something or other from 1993.
Found some DMC-210 boards on Ebay and included the pics here for curiosity's sake.
Looks like the DMC-210 runs on a 68C02, if anyone wants to disassemble the code for fun.

 

[GearTechWolf]

Next batch of recent dumps from Ebay purchases! An Award 486 bios, a couple different years of unknown IBM Even/Odd BIOS sets (an 81-85 and an 81-89), a rom from a "ComStream Digital Broadcast Receiver" (maybe a Radyne Satellite Receiver of some kind), a singular IBM VGA BIOS (version 1.15.20P), and one only identified by a numbered label (15942-017) as there were no obvious text strings in it.
Enjoy!

 

[GearTechWolf]

Was going to wait until I had more to upload these, but the contents turned out to be rather fascinating!
The text strings mention things like dopplering, spectrum, and frequency, so... I dunno, something to do with radar maybe?
Both chips are 27512 but are different manufacturers and their contents differ according to a verify run, though I'm not sure how.
Last third or so of the first chip appeared to be empty, didn't look that deep in the second.
Have fun!

 

[VileR]

Next batch of recent dumps from Ebay purchases! An Award 486 bios, a couple different years of unknown IBM Even/Odd BIOS sets (an 81-85 and an 81-89), a rom from a "ComStream Digital Broadcast Receiver" (maybe a Radyne Satellite Receiver of some kind), a singular IBM VGA BIOS (version 1.15.20P), and one only identified by a numbered label (15942-017) as there were no obvious text strings in it.
Enjoy!

The IBM BIOS images here are interesting... any clue what they're actually from?

"6448238/6448246 IBM 81-85": would love to know more about this one in particular. The BIOS date is 03/08/85, with model byte FC and submodel 1D (if that's what the very last byte is).
Given the year and the model byte (and being odd/even), this has to be some kind of AT.... but those part numbers/date/submodel don't match any known 5170 AT BIOS revision. At least not according to -0°, RBIL, or our forum thread here.
Gotta wonder if it's not something odd like the 3270 AT, AT/G or AT/GX!

"IBM 250590 EVEN/ODD" is curious too. The date at the end is 05/04/90, model byte F8, submodel 5C(?). Per RBIL, those bytes point at the PS/2 Model 95 XP (486) - but this ROM also includes those four extra text-mode fonts, which I've only seen in 16-bit ISA models so far.

So if anyone can say anything about these two, please do share.

(BTW, the file named "IBM VGA BIOS 1.15.20P" is actually from a Number Nine 'Ticket to Ride' board. It's just that all video card vendors seemed to include the string "IBM" at that one location... supposedly for compatibility or something.)