From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 23:35:45 PST
on 28/02/03 00:08, David Thiel at lx-newton_at_redundancy.org wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:45:47PM -0500, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>> I doubt you would be able to do that kind of swap since the ROM had the
>> system and the system is closely related to the hardware. Screen, internal
>> memory, PC card slots, etc. The first problem you would have, although I
>> haven't checked myself, would be to fit the eMate ROM onto the 130
>> motherboard. I'm fairly sure that the pinout is not the same, so it wouldn't
>> fit. If not, I'm sure that Frank or someone else would have tried it.
>
> Hrm, thanks for the info. So, if that wouldn't work, what's the
> best way to go about it these days? Just hang around eBay and look
> for broken 2100s, or do the chips themselves sometimes show up? I
> couldn't find any ROMs on their own in the completed searches.
I think that your best bet would be to forget this idea of swapping ROM. It
won't work either with a 2100 ROM in your 130 for the same reasons explained
above...
-Laurent.
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