extra rom sockets was Re: BIOS upgrade cards

[Tony Duell]

> 
> --- Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > ...there was room for 48K of ROMs, with
> > 40K being used (IBM 5150)
> 
>  therefore anything you plug into those extra rom
> sockets would allow you to access them and create a
> "hex dump" if that's the right term, and save it to
> disk. ISTR Intel having some sort of hex format for
> rom images.


I think so. There would be two caveats, though :

1) The ROM would have ot have the right pinout (although I am pretty sure 
IBM used a standard one).

2) The ROM had better not look like a valid BIOS extension ROM (i.e. have 
the right header and checksum) if you don't want it to be executed at 
boot-up. 

-tony