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(...) That is true except for removing the firmware by removing the batteries. Since the only alterable storage is powered by the batteries, there can never be permanent changes to the brick that survive a hard power-off. (...) The ROM is in the CPU (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Seriously? OK, whew! Then I *was* just being paranoid. I'll cross my fingers then and hope that 1.5 also has this property. (...) Amazing. Excellent. All is well with 1.0 then! (Whew!) --Todd (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Certainly they chose to allow firmware downloads to allow for future upgrades. For a new RCX, if they really wanted to prevent us from writing new firmware, the best solution, and one we could not defeat without extraordinary means, would be (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well, let me put in my nickle's worth as a grizzled veteran of embedded systems. I'm 37 years old and have hacked the following... 1. A Commodore PET (my first FORTH) at age 20 or so 2. An HP48 calculator. The PPC ROM and synthetic programming (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Did anyone else get the message from TLG about a "learning day" at MIT? I'm just curious as to which group of people they sent it to - people with pages on www.mindstorms.com, or people who registered their RIS, or some other group? After nearly a (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I got it. The message comes from "notify@legomindstorms.com", which I suppose means TLG. Anyway MindFest is organized by the Epistemology and Learning Group and the Okawa Center at the MIT Media Laboratory. If I'm not wrong, the Epistemology (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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This is very exciting. The page of relevant links includes both LUGNET and Russel Nelson's Mindstorms Internals page. (The event is hosted by MIT, not LEGO, so I assume no corporate myopia will limit the scope.) If anyone didn't get the email, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I would be surprised, too. If I were doing RIS 1.5, I'd fix a few holes in the firmware (arrays and pointers, a subroutine return addr stack instead of one subroutine call per task, &c) and add some power to RCX Code without compromising its (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) [Revisiting and older thread] it's interesting to note what Apple has done recently... If you bought an original G3, then you can use it with a G4 CPU. But: If you've downloaded and installed the recent ROM update from Apple, you can no longer (...) (25 years ago, 5-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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