4 Jan
2007
4 Jan
'07
12:02 a.m.
Dave Dunfield wrote:
Just curious, what technology is the ROS? - mask ROM, fuse PROM, EPROM,
something else?
.. wondering which it is that's failing.
Has anyone extracted images of the Read Only
Storage
for the IBM 5100/5100 desktop computers? I haven't
seen any mention of it anywhere, nor any simulators.
Has anyone worked on this? Seems like it should be doable
and worthwhile. Though, it might be necessary to build
hardware to read out the ROS contents -- I don't think the
5100 provides programmatic access to the PALM object code for
the 360 and S/3 emulators, just the BASIC and APL code.
Does that sound right?
I'd be VERY interested if some progress can be made on this.
I have a (BASIC only) 5100 that has a failure of the non-executable
ROS ...
So far I've not been able to dig up any significant technical information,
and images of the ROS do not appear to exist....