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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)
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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.
 
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