> And to further encourage the on-site dumping of this, it would be safe to say the > round-trip shipping on the full cab would cost more than $1000. Shipping the hard > drive stripped from the cab wouldn't be recommended, but shipping the video card to > get a BIOS dumped would be fine if necessary. > > Andrew
Completely agree. Don't move it, and don't ship the drive. I would start with picking up an old hard drive and using chdman to extract a mame chd on it. After that, try to successfully "re-dump" that same drive. Once is all it should take to make you expert enough to safely capture his drive.
Short of that, take a movie of the boot up, and snaps of the PC motherboard. It will indicate if the bios is easily removable, or if this is going to be a project....