[NTLK] Diagnostic Cards, Romulators & K Prime

[Grant Hutchinson]

> On Aug 27, 2025, at 2:44 PM, Grant Hutchinson via NewtonTalk <newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:
> 
> I haven’t been able to locate a decent definition online.

Silly me, I completely forgot that Steve provided me with a good description of a ROMulator back in 2017 ... on GitHub.

“ROMulator is a generic term, nothing specific to Newton. Normally it'd be a circuit used in the place of ROM chips – generally a gob of RAM chips, and some other circuitry to allow an uplink to a computer, so that code can be downloaded onto the RAM. Then the device would execute the code as if it were burned into ROM chips. As an example, tether the device, upload the code from your computer, hit the reset button on the device, and it starts executing that newly uploaded code.”

https://github.com/pablomarx/Leibniz/issues/1#issuecomment-283206020

One piece of the puzzle solved.

g.