You are thinking of the Dallas SmartSocket series, and it has
no identifying marks on it. It was used with a normal low power
CMOS RAM chip.
The OP's wording was somewhat awkward, but he doesn't have a
smart socket.
The OP has already said that his is an encapsulated Dallas NVRAM
that is installed in a socket.
He is safe to remove it, and read it with his EPROM programmer.
It will read just like a 6116, RAM chip. Different programmers
have different ways of reading the Dallas chip.
-Chuck Harris
Alan Melia via Groups.Io wrote:
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Maybe not!! some of these Dallas devices have a battery in the socket to maintain the
contents. It may not be one of those but do check before removing anything. The
"socket" may actually be a header and the whole thing unplugged and read in a
programmer as if it was an EPROM. I last came across these in the 1990s using
prototyping/development kits. Others are rather "fat" 28-pin (0.6in.) IC shapes and
have an internal battery I think.
Alan
G3NYK
