Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!spot.Colorado.EDU!frechett From: frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: Copying ROM cards Message-ID: <1991Feb4.215951.2969@csn.org> Date: 4 Feb 91 21:59:51 GMT References: Sender: news@csn.org (news) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 44 Nntp-Posting-Host: spot.colorado.edu In article TNA32@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (FRINGE) writes: >Recently there's been a lot of talk about the "backing up" of ROM cards. >Ok, you're not a developer. You're not a software pirate. "Go call GOD"?? Ok, let's not get crazy here.. ;) Most of what you say make sense and I think you tend toward one extreme but I would like to address a couple points. > > >not. ROM cards are VERY relaible. I carry insurance on my calculator and >its peripherals, they're expensive, I know my insurance is there, I know it >will take care of things. That's what it's for. Somebody steps on your It will NOT take care of worn contacts. I think this is the ONLY valid concern regarding copying of cards.. I think most of the other reasons can be shot down as easily as you shoot them down but this one worries me. The hp48sx IS a one slot machine, and if you consider that I already have an EQ lib and have an EE card on backorder and I also plan to get the EE library card, this could induce some serious wear on cards and the calculator. Is your insurance going to cover wear incurred by the reapeated insertion and removal of cards? >Get real. I am. > >The point was, if you need that much guts to run a program, you shouldn't [...] >It's a very powerful tool, that's been adapted to do many things that I'm sure >it was not designed to do. It's very flexible, and can indeed perform many HEH!! If it was not designed to do what it does then why the hell did they make it DO what it does. I think that yes, it is a calculator but I think that it can also be anything that you want it to do. The design was to NOT limit us into any given path. If this wasn't so, then they wouldn't have provided the memory scanner and SYSEVAL. >IT'S A CALCULATOR, NOT GOD IN A BOX. It's not JUST a calculator, but I might agree that it is not "GOD I A BOX". >Chill people. Likewise. [...] >have a reasonable chance of failure. Should it do so, that's what warranties >are for. If you should lose it, it's lost in fire, whatever, you do not have >the right to just load up your spare copy into ram and use it. See argument re. pins above. > [...] >Mike.