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From: bobb@tekfdi.TEK.COM (Robert Bales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: internal RAM expansion
Message-ID: <1626@tekfdi.TEK.COM>
Date: 10 Jan 88 23:11:07 GMT
References: <10001@ut-sally.UUCP> <181@stsci> <382@boole.acc.virginia.edu> <22454@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <10029@ut-sally.UUCP>
Reply-To: bobb@tekfdi.UUCP (Robert Bales)
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In article <10029@ut-sally.UUCP> joe@ut-sally.UUCP (Joe Hitchens) writes:

>>Anyone ever though of a use for 2040 bytes of battery-backed ram on the
>>Amiga?  (assuming you need to run a disk program to read it?)

>Another idea I had was to put KickStart in ROM after modifying it to run
>a piece of code that asks for a password you have held in the clock ram.
>(and of course refuse to continue booting unless you get it right).

Be sure to checksum the password so that if (when) the battery dies, the
machine doesn't expect the random (to you) contents of memory as a password,
before it lets you do anything (including reinstalling the password). You
could be guessing for a long time. . . .

   Bob Bales
   Tektronix, Inc.

I help Tektronix make their instruments. They don't help me make my opinions.