At 09:58 am 30/07/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 at 09:35:11, Adrian Vickers wrote:
>(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>
>>
>>Do you know what would usually live above the zero, if anything?
>= - if it followed the IBM layout, which it probably did.
Presumably then there were other differences on the top row (i.e. the = +
key would be different)?
>>No, the JMs are definitely not EPROMS. They may be EEPROMs, I suppose, but
>>they seem to have all the proper markings to be a plain old ROM. Is it
>>plausible that the former owner may have used a Gold Card (or similar) and
>>had a start-up disk/mdv to alter the keytable?
>Was that possible with std roms?
I think so - doesn't the Gold Card copy the ROM into RAM? I forget how you
go looking for it, but IIRC it does tell you in the manual. If it's in RAM,
of course, it's susceptible to patching...
>Yeah - looks very like a std German QL hacked.
>
>A lot of those hardware mods did very little I suspect, but can't do any
>harm!
Intriguing, nonetheless. Unfortunately, tracking the history of this
particular unit is going to be impossible (the previous owner bought it at
a car boot sale...).
Cheers!
Ade.
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