Hi folks,

It just occurred to me, that modems have ROMs on, and were one of the first parts to regularly have a flash ROM installed due to standards being updated every few months through the mid-late 90s.

But then it occurred to me, "Wait a sec, is that ROM actually on the bus???" I don't know if you have to go through the modem chipset to flash them or what.

I was thinking this way, because I have plenty of probably flashable 8 bit ISA modems, that I really don't have a use for, (There's one or two nice full hardware all protocol ones picked out in case of sudden apocalypse and diallup comes back.) so I was wondering about sticking that XT IDE BIOS or similar on them, which would be really easy one would suppose, unless it's all proprietary flash utils and weird ROM addresses that aren't in the system ROM area..

I'm having a blind spot about it, brain won't tell me right (I shall have to poke it with a q-tip) so what do y'all think?

Thanks in advance...