9 Nov
2004
9 Nov
'04
11:11 a.m.
At 04:40 PM 11/9/04 -0500, you wrote:
Interesting! I was told that they didn't make any roms for the 9831 since all the
9830 ROMs were built in. I should look at my 9831. I've never done anything with it
and it's buried.
Joe
At 01:46 PM 11/9/04, you wrote:
No. But if you look at the link that I gave you'll see exactly what I was told.
It's an exact quote, I cut and pasted it from a message from one of the 9825/9831
designers. If they fit I won't worry about trying them. HP is good about making
incompatible parts really incompatible.
I'm not sure I'd want to risk it, but I have
You can actually unplug the 9830 ROMs, plug in
9825 ROMs and it becomes a
9825 again.
Have you done this? a bunch of 9825 machines -- some with full travel
keyboards -- that
would be nicer to use than the "chicklet" keyboard.
You should be able to swap keyboards if you'd rather got that way.
See
<http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/hp9831.htm> for more info.
Thanks for the link. I do have a plug-in ROM for the 9885 drives.
The ROM is an HP 98218A and is marked "For Use in 9831A."
I did put up some photos at www.decodesystems.com/hp9831.html
Cheers,
Dan