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Re: Dropping your RCX on the floor...
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Sat, 7 Oct 2000 10:07:25 GMT
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(tobias.moller@telia)AvoidSpam(.com)
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Yes, it was on, and when I picked it up, it was turned off. I thought
"No! It's broken!" but you could turn it on, and the firmware was gone.
But doesn't the batteries need to be disconnected for like a minute for
the firmware to be erased from memory?
--Tobias
Kekoa Proudfoot wrote:
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> Tobias Möller <tobias.moller@telia.com> wrote:
> > I've dropped my RCX two times (actually, first mine, then my brothers...
> > Ooops...), and both time, the only thing that happened was that the RCX
> > couldn't remember it's firmware... I thought it would break, but it didn't...
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> Loss of firmware... perhaps the batteries temporarily lost their connection
> when you dropped the RCX? Was the RCX on at the time?
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> -Kekoa
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| Not if was on when that battery disconnects. I think the memory is powered through a capacitor or somthing like that, when the RCX if off the power to the memory is maintained even when batteries arn't in for a few minuets because of the small (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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