frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) (01/31/91)
>7. HP's EQLIB card is misleading because it contains 8 libraries. Sparcom's > cards contain, typically, one large 128K library. (More or less.) There Ah... I wondered what the sparcom Cards had on them as I don't know that anyone has got one of the damn things yet. ;) > >responsible, as there is no need for it. As a commercial developer whose >income depends on the sale of ROMs, I can say that the last thing I want is Then I wonder how you make any money at all.. The purpose of this post was to inform everyone that Sparcom has bumped the EE aplication card back to APRIL!!! Are they actually wanting to sell some cards or is this just a big ploy to hold a few hundred people in suspence.. Educalc is going nuts. They just keep getting orders, (last I checked the backorders were at around 200) and sparcom just keeps bumping the dates back further and further. > >Scott. Do you happen to know what is happen to know what is going on here? ian
prestonb@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (Preston Brown) (02/02/91)
For some of the cards out there (including my Casino 48 card) copy protection in not necessary. Anyone who wants the program will pay less if he or she buys the card in ROM format then if they download it into RAM. Backup is not really useful since the restore would require enough free memory to load it back. Not many users have empty 128K RAM cards available to load a backup copy of their EQ card into should it fail. Someone with lots of RAM may want to free up a port; but if you need an entire 128K library then you are not going to be able to free the port anyway since the library will fill it up in either format. The person is better off spending less on the ROM then buying a 128K RAM card to load it into. I also dislike copy protection and knew the simple methods built into the 48 would be quickly beaten. But with the price of RAM so high and the limited address space of each port I am not to worried about it. Preston These comments are my own and may not represent those of my company.
prestonb@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (Preston Brown) (02/05/91)
>And what does >the increased insertion and removal of cards do to the internal contacts of >the calculator. Has HP released any info on contact wear?? The contacts were designed with this application in mind and have been tested to thousands of cycles. Preston