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From: bgribble@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Gribble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: download library from EQ LIB card
Keywords: eq-lib card
Message-ID: <10502@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 26 Jan 91 10:22:23 GMT
References: <27a114e2:1810comp.sys.handhelds@hpcvbbs.UUCP>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <27a114e2:1810comp.sys.handhelds@hpcvbbs.UUCP> akcs.gandalf@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Rakkiat Trimahaloek) writes:

>        Sometimes ago somebody posting message about downloading
>library from EQ LIB card to RAM and backup it to pc and said that
>it may not be worth to know how to do it because buying a RAM card
>to keep the "stolen" library is expensive than the EQ LIB itself.

Just thinkin': this idea presents some interesting philosophical 
  questions.  If there's an easy way to copy ROM cards, I don't know 
  of it; but I'm sure somebody out there does.  The question is 
  whether this information should be widely disseminated.  If it 
  becomes public knowledge that any ROM card for the '48 could be
  copied and, say, stored to disk, I think the effect on developers
  would be even more drastic than it is in the "real" computer
  industry.  The market for '48 software is pretty small; the effects
  of piracy even on a small scale would be an economic factor 
  developers couldn't ignore.  

I would say that the inconvenience of waiting half a second at powerup
  is negligibly small, and if it's too large take the card out.  I don't
  think that even if anyone knows how to copy it to a ram card that 
  knowledge should be made public.  I, for one, would be interested
  to see how it worked, but I don't think I could trust myself.

>Rakkiat

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