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# State of the ROMs address -- 1.94x pre1 release for Montreal

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- Subject: State of the ROMs address -- 1.94x pre1 release for Montreal
- From: "Ken Clark" <ken@gesn.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 17:03:29 -0700
- Cc: <jwdean@gesn.com>
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I have put AVOS-PC-FC-194x-pre1.zip on the ftp site in the AVOSFix directory. Password 3byqmoqhpbfqm. It contains the hex files for AccuVote Optical Scan Precinct Count French Canadian 1.94x prerelease 1. (good grief). The firmware checksums are A:3985 B:FA37.
I am just getting my arms around the state of the AVOS firmware. Here is what I know so far. It is very probably incomplete and incorrect, but its a start.

- 1.94w was released March 14th 1999. It included a French Canadian build. It is Wyle certified. It does not however have a withdrawn candidate feature Montreal wants.
- 1.94x was released Feb 14th 2000. It was subsequently re-released Feb 28th 2000 after a bug was found having to do with modem detection. It is not Wyle certified. There was no FC build at that time. To the best of my knowledge today's 1.94x FC build contains the modem fix, but there is only one way to be sure.
- 1.94y exists, but never made it out of beta. 1.96.2 was submitted to Wyle in favor of 1.94y so I assume that release is baby-in-dumpster at this point.
- 1.95 series has most features that are in 1.94 but not all. Whether 1.95e includes the withdrawn candidate feature isn't clear; again there is only one way to find out. 1.95 conversely has some additional features that are not in 1.94, but none of them are critical for Montreal. As with 1.94y this series has been terminated in favor of 1.96.2. I don't think any 1.95 release has been through Wyle.
- 1.96 series apparently has all the features of 1.94 and 1.95, but again I can't swear to that. It is in the process of going through Wyle, but has not yet passed. There is a possible memory card corruption bug with this release, but that has not yet been investigated.

Once everyone is happy with the FC 1.94x prerelease, I will build an 'official' release.
Ken

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