Re: [NTLK] NOS 2.0 ROM in Sharp ExpertPad?

From: James Elliott (rootbeeraddict_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 06:38:47 EST


>On 12/10/01, James Elliott quoth:
> >for he thought that the ROM in the ExpertPad was made specially
> >for Sharp. That made little sense to me, though, for it was simply
> >an OMP in a different case, according to what I have heard.
>
>Yeah, if you take the case off, the inside hardware is identical.
>Also, it takes the same system updates as an OMP/MP100, so I assume
>that should prove the ROM is the same.
>
>As for consequences, well, I can't tell you there. I know people
>have stuck a 120 2.0 ROM in a 110 (forget where I saw this), but
>that's different hardware. I'd say the most likely failure would be
>in the screen as they have different resolutions. Next on my list of
>worries would be the fact that the OMP and MP100 were starved for
>heap, and there may not be enough to run the 2.0 OS.

I assumed that since the ExpertPad was made to run 1.3, that it could
handle the same update to NOS 2.0 as an MP 120 that originally
shipped with 1.3.

> There's also a
>good chance that the ROM won't be able to cope with the different
>chipset of the ExpertPad/OMP/MP100. If this would render it
>unusable/inoperable/beyond repair is beyond me. Then there's the
>factors of different power considerations, wear and tear from
>soldering and unsoldering, and lots of other stuff I'm not even
>thinking of.

Power was something that I had not taken into account.

>All the same, were it me, I'd try it on an old, cheap and far more
>common MP100 before I'd risk a fairly rare ExpertPad.

I guess that would probably be a better idea. I thought I should go
with the ExpertPad because I thought that the ROM was removable.

-James

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