Introduction
ROM stands for Read Only Memory. They are programmed at the factory at the time of manufacture with a special mask, thus called a masked ROM. This is the cheapest way to manufacture ROMs once you need more than 10,000 at a time. The drawback is, if there is even one little bug in the software, that pile of 10,000 ROMs becomes worthless. Be aware that some masked ROMs are unreadable by EPROM programmers