HP OmniBook 300 find!

[Dave Britten]

(05-09-2016 04:29 PM)Bill (Smithville NJ) Wrote:  Dave,

That's great that you were able to duplicate the ROM card. I know several people on the old Omnibook list had tried is but had ran into many difficulties.

I have a OB-425 card, version 1.1S laying around. You are welcome to try copying it. I could also loan you a OB-430 card from one my working OB-430 units to try copying.

Let me know if you are interested.

Bill
Smithville, NJ

I'll have to see if I still have the tools I used to make that happen. I was able to successfully create a working copy of the 1.1 425 system card using some kind of linear flash card (I think I had to try a couple before I found one that worked). I've been running this copy in my 300 ever since. I don't know if the flashing tool I used also supports reading an image from a card, so I'll have to check on that. Time to dig out the Libretto tonight, I suppose. I'm pretty sure that was where I did it.

I think it was a DOS-based tool; I wonder if it would be possible to run it directly on the OmniBook.