rs4u+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Richard Siegel) (06/22/87)
I quote: "Um, seems I remember the TI/994A and a variety of other computers had package designs that let you put the ROM chip in--temporarily--through a cartridge. " Right! That includes the coleco Adam, right? Remember those two machines ? Are they still on the market? What? Be real. --Rich
mentat@NGP.UTEXAS.EDU (Robert Dorsett) (06/22/87)
It still doesn't require a BS in EE to pop open the cover on a machine just to change a ROM. It's just a rather trivial design issue. You might wish to think back a bit and examine user reactions to the cartridge approach. It *was* rather popular, particularly among those who knew the al- ternative. And it makes a LOT more sense than binding users to limited-cap- ability machines (not implying that those limits make the machine difficult to use). For a VERY short time, at the beginning, the Mac design was intended to support any number of alternative user environments. Since then, everything that has been developed points to the "Mac" interface we've come to love...:-) Robert