One must love Drake R8A receiver! I would say, that having no internal ROM is an advantage in this situation.
"No internal ROM" might mean that it relies on a bunch of custom PLA chips which would not be an improvement. With a ROM there is at least a chance you can dump it and run a disassembler on the contents to figure out what it is trying to do.
"No internal ROM" might mean that it relies on a bunch of custom PLA chips which would not be an improvement. With a ROM there is at least a chance you can dump it and run a disassembler on the contents to figure out what it is trying to do.