So I thought I bricked my iPhone by putting the early firmware on there. It turns out that the early firmware was likely the 2.0 stuff for *3G* phones and not 1st generation iPhones. After trying many different was to get old 1.1.4 or new correct 2.0 on the phone, I remembered that I still had the firmware from yesterday on a thumb drive. I copied it to my Mac and started the process to “update” to 2.0 again.
Now I just need to figure out how to go from wrong 2 to right 2 and I’ll be out of the weeds…