In message <20011003215554.C5415@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Wilko Bulte writes:
>> Empirically, no.  I'm gonna get a couple of used -11-E boards, and see if
>> they work for me.

>Bah.. I only have KZPBAs here so I cannot check if a plain 1040 will work in
>any of my Alphas.

What would be cool is if, say, it were possible to extract the "fixed" DEC
ROM from a KZPBA, and shove it into a regular 1040... However, it *is* worth
noting that, while both chips claim to be "1040B", they have different model
numbers past that; perhaps there really *ARE* hardware differences!

-s