Gentle HP3000 list subscribers,

Yesterday in my little post about a challenge, I wrote the following:

"I have grown spoiled with having both a CD-RW and an LS-120 installed in the
notebook, or I can pull out the devices and put in a DVD-ROM and an extra
battery and watch movies on the plane.  (The best would be a DVD-ROM/CR-RW
device, but these do not yet exist.)"

Today, whilst cruising the Internet in search of firmware updates to defeat the
region protection code (RPC-2) of some of my devices, I chanced upon a page
listing firmware upgrades for CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo devices.  It listed about a
dozen such devices.  Therefore my statement above is somewhat misleading.
 These devices do exist but there are currently none available for laptops that
would fit in a bay.

Also, this site had DAT firmware upgrades for HP and Sony brand machines.
 These upgrades only work on DOS or Windows NT.
http://www.firmware.com.bi/

Please heed the warnings on the page.


Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP
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