[NTLK] Assuming this is acceptable, ROM image for Einstein...

[Matthias Melcher]

Are we overthinking this? If someone wants to get a 717006 ROM, they will download a 717006 ROM, right?


On Jun 24, 2014, at 7:55 AM, Marisa Giancarla <fstltna at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Its just my opinion, but at this point in time expecting someone to be able to cobble together a complex environment just to download 4mb of code is unrealistic. It costs over one hundred dollars to put the pieces together including a serial usb adapter/interconnect and os that supports it, etc... A few years ago that argument might have been more reasonable but i think the time has passed.... Just imho again...
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>> On Jun 23, 2014, at 10:32 PM, Jon Glass <jonglass at usa.net> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Jeff Sheldon <jeffsheldon at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> It's a terrible idea all around.  Provisions have been available for
>>> over a decade to extract a ROM image and that puts the onus rightfully
>>> on the owner.  The desire to aid newbs is touching, but the process
>>> isn't difficult.
>>> 
>> 
>> I have the ROM file I extracted from my Newton (after going through hoops
>> to boot an older computer, etc...) and it doesn't work. It's sitting in my
>> Einstein folder with one that someone gave me. They seem identical (maybe
>> some bytes off), but the one I created doesn't work... And yes, I tried
>> multiple times. I don't know why mine won't work, and I'm glad someone was
>> willing to give me one. And let's see, I have a 2100, a 2000, a few 120s
>> and a Sharp MessagePad, and maybe a non-working 130, but I don't remember
>> now. Of course, I only tried the 2100, because it made no sense to me to go
>> downwards in capability, but maybe I'm wrong... And now, my older
>> Serial-based Macs are all gone.
>> 
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