Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!uqv-mts!Dan_Berry From: userDBUG@ualtamts.BITNET (Dan Berry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: New GS ROMs Message-ID: <237@ualtamts.BITNET> Date: 16 Aug 89 22:02:54 GMT Organization: University of Alberta (MTS) Lines: 36 First off, with people referring to "ROM 3", I'm assuming that they actually mean "Version 2", as compared to versions 0..1. Secondly, out of curiousity (really!), unless they drastically changed some key functions on the M.B., couldn't you simply make a duplication of the "ver2" ROMs and stick them into the older motherboards? While I've gone and mentioned that, I might as well also explain my feelings on EPROM copying. Personally, I feel that if a company (such as Apple) comes out with a machine (like the GS) and then later on upgrades it with new ROMs (as they just did), I should be entitled to have that upgrade for free based on the following: 1. I paid a rather large sum for a machine that I assumed, at the time of purchase, to be worth the thousands of dollars that I invested into it. If they upgrade it, then I feel that it's an admission by the said company that their machine wasn't the best even by their standards. 2. Eventually, given enough time, a non-upgraded machine will become less compatible as new software is produced. While I could understand a cost for a ROM upgrade (nothing else), I couldn't see it being as expensive as it undoubtably would be. If they had the Ver1 owners bring in their EPROM to a dealer and had the dealer make a copy over the older version, wouldn't it be more of a cost SAVINGS? Look at the enhanced //e ("e//e"?). Then again, I sold my GS just last week -- apparently just in time -- before they (Apple) announced another upgrade that cost an arm and a leg. I'm not against the GS, but I really wish that they'd consult the general populus when they consider these things. Any company that charges $7 (CDN) for a piece of injection molded plastic reset switches that takes 20 seconds to form deserves what they get. +-----------------------------------+ DAN BERRY ! "Violence is the last ! University of Alberta ! refuge of an incompetent." ! Computing Systems +-----------------------------------+ (Network and DataCom)