[Beckwith]

> Well, then call it a defeatable ROM card.

No, I will not. Neither will I call a cow a reindeer.

By definition a read-only-memory (ROM) card is just that, "read only." Comprende? It can't be changed. It's what it is. The Diebold machines come with these cards installed

The Swede, by the description provided, used a PROGRAMMABLE-read-only-memory (PROM). Any hardware programmer can change these cards at will.

Get with the program.

[steve86]

I've been working with programmable and non-programmable cards on and off for 25 years.

Manufacturers and customers use the terms different ways at different times.

Give up, the world doesn't care and is never going to conform to your rigid and useless ways of thinking.