It's well known to macintosh enthusiasts that on Vintage Macs, ROM upgrades are needed to be easier to use than CPU upgrades and memory expansions.
BMOW sold the first ROM-inator as a kit for Plus, 512k, 128k, but now it is open source and you can only make it yourself. To produce it, you need to purchase a ROM programmer and request a PCB production from a Gerber file to a PCB company, which is too costly for users who only need a ROM-inator. But I wanted to challenge them, so I decided to make an open source PCB, program the ROM and enjoy it.
* BMOW still sells a highly compatible ROM card called ROM-inator II, which can be used for SE/30 and IIci or more. These enable ROM Disk Boot, checksum cancellation (quick boot), HD20 (old style HD connected to the FD connector), and Mode32 (32Bit clean). We recommend trying this on a Mac with a ROM-SIMM slot.
My friend @JDW looked at my ROM-inator and said he wanted to install it on his 512K. I had a stock of parts, so I programmed the ROM and send him the kit. And he completed a great YouTube video and taught people how to make it.
I thought it would be a waste to bury this, so I decided to sell this kit. With the help of BMOW's Steve Chamberlin, the kit will complete very soon.
Price:
Basic Kits start at 29 USD...
The original price was 29 USD. I wanted to get this as close as possible, but I think it would be as high as 4 USD for custom pins and other expenses for low profile. This is largely due to my absence in the United States and the fact that I have to pay PayPal a 2 USD fee every time I convert to JPY.
However this is the case for the full kit, if you want to prepare the pins yourself, we have prepared an economy kit, so we will sell it for 29 USD. You need to prepare the IC socket, the machine pin to be installed on the logic board, and the wiring material by yourself.
Sales:
As for the selling method, I'm new to this point, so I'll probably choose Tindie or the direct selling method. You can use PayPal for payment.
Improvement:
As @JDW noted in the video (he was having a hard time), we improved the point that it is difficult to install because the position of the ROM-inator becomes high.
Especially at 128K / 512K, it collides with the head of ROM due to the protrusion of the chassis. To avoid this, we have prepared a low profile custom pin. * The cost is a bit higher because of this, but better than the buyer struggles.
The first batch will use Steve's PCB, but eventually we'll switch to the PCB that @Stephen is working on. It's still in the prototype stage and works, but wasn't adopted in the first batch because physical conflicts are unavoidable.
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BMOW sold the first ROM-inator as a kit for Plus, 512k, 128k, but now it is open source and you can only make it yourself. To produce it, you need to purchase a ROM programmer and request a PCB production from a Gerber file to a PCB company, which is too costly for users who only need a ROM-inator. But I wanted to challenge them, so I decided to make an open source PCB, program the ROM and enjoy it.
* BMOW still sells a highly compatible ROM card called ROM-inator II, which can be used for SE/30 and IIci or more. These enable ROM Disk Boot, checksum cancellation (quick boot), HD20 (old style HD connected to the FD connector), and Mode32 (32Bit clean). We recommend trying this on a Mac with a ROM-SIMM slot.
My friend @JDW looked at my ROM-inator and said he wanted to install it on his 512K. I had a stock of parts, so I programmed the ROM and send him the kit. And he completed a great YouTube video and taught people how to make it.
I thought it would be a waste to bury this, so I decided to sell this kit. With the help of BMOW's Steve Chamberlin, the kit will complete very soon.
Price:
Basic Kits start at 29 USD...
The original price was 29 USD. I wanted to get this as close as possible, but I think it would be as high as 4 USD for custom pins and other expenses for low profile. This is largely due to my absence in the United States and the fact that I have to pay PayPal a 2 USD fee every time I convert to JPY.
However this is the case for the full kit, if you want to prepare the pins yourself, we have prepared an economy kit, so we will sell it for 29 USD. You need to prepare the IC socket, the machine pin to be installed on the logic board, and the wiring material by yourself.
Sales:
As for the selling method, I'm new to this point, so I'll probably choose Tindie or the direct selling method. You can use PayPal for payment.
Improvement:
As @JDW noted in the video (he was having a hard time), we improved the point that it is difficult to install because the position of the ROM-inator becomes high.
Especially at 128K / 512K, it collides with the head of ROM due to the protrusion of the chassis. To avoid this, we have prepared a low profile custom pin. * The cost is a bit higher because of this, but better than the buyer struggles.
The first batch will use Steve's PCB, but eventually we'll switch to the PCB that @Stephen is working on. It's still in the prototype stage and works, but wasn't adopted in the first batch because physical conflicts are unavoidable.
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