Yes - it was taken down for copyright. A long time ago I assisted a member of the community to get a ton of scans up onto archive.org. In doing so, I missed that the book was (for some definition) still available, and it was taken down by the rights holder. I guess Brian's upload hasn't been struck down yet.
-Josh On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 8:46 PM John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 5:11 PM B 9 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks, Stephen, your bank switching code worked perfectly to access the >> MULTIPLAN. Once I add the PC8300's ROM banking scheme, my code will be able >> to do a proper checksum of any Model T. (It shouldn't be too hard since >> NEC's technical reference manual covers bank selection.) >> >> Does anyone have any advice on the best place to place assembly language >> programs with ORG so they can run on any Model T? I've been using 60000 >> since it seems to work on even the 8K RAM machines, at least according to >> Virtual T, although I admit I don't know how. Does an 8K Model 100 put its >> memory at the highest addresses and have a hole in the middle? >> >> Side note on researching ancient tech documentation: I tried looking for >> that "Secrets of ROM Revealed" book and Google completely failed me in a >> way I haven't seen before. Even when I added "archive.org" to the search >> terms and put "ROM" in quotes, it just gave me a link to people searching >> for the book which led to a page on archive.org saying "This item was >> removed". I tried Google Books and Hathi Trust and neither had ever heard >> of it. I even tried a shadow library (Anna's Archive) and came up with >> nothing. Just as I was beginning to think "the ROM" must have some very >> deep secrets indeed to have buried this revealing exposé so completely, I >> found the book! If you search archive.org directly instead of relying on >> Google, it turns up. Here it is: >> https://archive.org/details/secrets-of-rom-revealed, uploaded by our own >> Brian K. White. It's interesting that a reference book could nearly vanish >> like that simply by not being properly indexed. Thank goodness for >> archive.org! >> >> —b9 >> >> > I can only speculate it may be because the copyright holder was defending > their copyright. > > I came to the Model T community in 2004 but I was able to buy my copy from > Mo's widow. That's not to say it's still available for sale, I do not know. > > -- John. > >>
