DavidMil Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 I found my old TeleLink II cartridge yesterday while rooting around in my attic. When I plugged it into my 800 lo and behold, there were two phone numbers from a couple of local BBS's that we used to download from. The two seven digit phone numbers have been patiently waiting these last 33 or so years to be used again. Ok, before I tear into the TeleLink II cartridge to see about downloading the contents, what did they use to save the phone numbers? If there is any interest I can post a picture of the opened cartridge so the 'guts' will be laid bare for all to see. DavidMil 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 I'd bet capacitor... Unlikely to be battery... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 (edited) Here, I'll save you the trouble. The dump is freely available elsewhere: Edited February 5, 2017 by MrFish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMil Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 I know all the chips in there but one, The X2212D. I looked it up. It's a Static Non volatile RAM chip. Never heard of anything like that in the early 1980's, so I intend to do some more research. I'll get back to you all (notice I didn't say ya'll) in a bit. DavidMil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMil Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 An interesting little chip: 256 x 4 of non-volatile Static RAM, with a 100,000 write cycle life and a 100 year storage life. I guess my 33 years of storage is not such big deal. DavidMil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+David_P Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Probably the first commercially available cartridge that saved user data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ripdubski Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Beat Nintendo to the punch for saving data to the cart. IIRC it could hold almost 500 bytes. I think I figured it when I featured it on Inverse ATASCII. https://inverseatascii.info/2016/04/19/s2e14-atari-telelink-i-ii/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 (edited) Clever tech back then... Edited February 6, 2017 by Mclaneinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoundGammon Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 Didn't Atari use a chip like that for the arcade version of Asteroids Deluxe for saving high scores? I believe Tempest used one too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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