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echo: locsysop
to: Bill Grimsley
from: Rod Speed
date: 1996-03-29 10:58:48
subject: Copying EPROMs

BV> Maybe. Depends on wether the punters know and all. Now, if
BV> you could come up with a firmware upgrade for the V32.bis
BV> Sportster to allow it to do V.34, that'd be a different story.

BG> Good point.  The CPU and DSP are much the same in both models,
BG> so it's not as if the V.32bis model lacks the grunt.  However,
BG> the EPROM is surface-mounted (and soldered) from memory, plus
BG> I'm sure there are other major differences which would virtually
BG> make such an upgrade difficult, if not impossible.

Some suggestion that they have gone that way with the latest batch of V34+
Sporsters too, no more socket. Someone, Gene from memory, waffled about
flashrom, but its more likely its a soldered in rom now. Fuck that for a joke.
@EOT:

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