MOTM

Another possibility to extend the number of resident waves on a MiniWave 
would be to load 8 EPROMs-worth of data onto a single, high-capacity 27C4001 
EPROM.  That EPROM costs only $7.50 each, quantity-one from Mouser.  
(511-27C4001-12B catalog page 118.)  That solution eliminates power 
consumption from multiple idle EPROMs when they aren't selected, too.  This 
is a 32 pin EPROM so an adapter would have to be fashioned, but would work 
well with the thumbwheel switch idea to select which EPROM image is presented 
to the MiniWave.  This would also be very small and could easily fit as a 
piggyback board to the MiniWave - no external card and messy wiring.

An added benefit is that the EPROM could be "added to" if it wasn't full to 
begin with.  (You cannot get rid of what you already have, but the unused 
areas of the chip are blank and can programmed in any number of sessions as 
your wave collection grows.)  I would think that 8 standard EPROM's worth of 
data should keep one occupied for quite a long time.  And for less than 8 
bucks, the price is right.

The downside of this approach isn't strictly technical... it is a matter of 
getting a number of people to cooperate in allowing "their" waves to be 
co-resident on the same chip as "his" waves and "her" waves.  I own a device 
programmer that could stamp out these chips (each one could easily be 
unique), but I would be somewhat hesitant to volunteer as the waveform 
police.

Technically, I think this idea has some merit.  Politically, it might be a 
bomb.

What do you think?

Cheers!
Tom Farrand

PS "tastes like... burning"  Was that the same episode as "I'm so hungry I 
could eat at Arbys"?