Re: Fluke 9100a X2444 question

<x-flowed>thanks John for help......
found ftp://ftp.flippers.com/TTL/Test%20Equipment/Fluke/9100A/
has at least 5 ram files...
to bad you can't find away to read xicor form external program....
I had problem w / teledisk until I used version 2.23
worked fine ....service v1.2 older service with hd format and no serial
req'ed
Al

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Robertson" <jrr@flippers.com>
To: "Technical Tools Mail List" <techtoolslist@flippers.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Techtoolslist] Fluke 9100a X2444 question

> Well, checking my archives I see there is some documentation by me...
> -------------(start old message 2002)...........................
>
> I have had the recent opportunity to dig inside a couple of 9100's lately
> (I bought a few NOS ones) and I kept one to go along with my old 9100. Now
> the problem with these suckers is the software is keyed to a serial number
> embedded in the EEPROM that is tucked away on the main PCB. It just so
> happens that this part (an Xicor X2444 - 32 bytes) is readable by my
> Xeltek Superpro programmer so I unsoldered the one in my old base and read
> it, and then tried it again in the original base. Still works. So then I
> decided to unsolder one from my keeper NOS 9100 and read it tonight.
>
> So what I have is two 32 byte data streams, the first one (old base) is
> serial number 4900002 (unknown Site Code) is:
> A2 C4 4A 00 42 03 FF FB 01 00 0A 00 03 50 08 40
> 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 FE 02 00 00 00 00 BF BE
>
> And serial number (NOS) 4775000 "Site Code 1" is:
> 58 DC 48 00 42 00 FC 00 FC 00 00 00 03 50 08 20
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FE 02 01 00 00 00 23 0F
>
> The first 9100 has the following options:
> 4 megs of RAM installed
> Sony floppy
> Programmers option w/video card
> Version 4.X software?
>
> The NOS 9100 has
> 2 megs of RAM
> ? Floppy
> Version 4.1 software
>
> I'll dig out more from these using the utility disc this weekend.
> I think the "40" on the first row last byte is the RAM size, this makes
> sense as the second 9100's is only "20" (2 megs), I suspect the first
> three bytes are the serial number...maybe...
>
> I accidentally copied the Utilities disc to the old base and it has taken
> over the drive from the original operating system. If anyone has 9100
> discs they can be archived and stored via TELEDISK (old DOS or W95/DOS)
> program...I'd like a copy for trying to figure this protection out for
> archiving.
> -----------------(end of 2002 message)--------------------------------
> John :-#)#
>
> At 8:44 PM -0700 4/25/05, John Robertson wrote:
>>Those (undocumented) RAM dumps were from various 9100's X2444 serial RAM
>>devices that I took in an effort to try and figure out how the serial
>>number was encoded. I lost interest due to other more pressing
>>matters..and in fact haven't touched my 9100's in over two years now (I
>>think). Sigh.
>>
>>John :-#(#
>>
>>At 5:54 PM -0400 4/25/05, AL SACCO_comcast wrote:
>>>found 5 X2444-xxxxxxxxx.ram files on flippers/ttl site............
>>>couldn't locate any info on how to install or extract info from 9100a
>>>for these ram files .......
>>>when I try to run service disk in unit it comes up wrong service id
>>>#.........
>>>I think these ram files are the key to making unit work.........
>>>any help would be appreciated.........
>>>
>>>thanks Chris Logan for answering my previous postings.....
>>>
>>>Al
>>>
>>
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