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From: fortinp@bcara13.bnr.ca (Pierre Fortin 1573589)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Tos 1.4 - Two Versions?
Summary: 04 16 19 89
	 Oh Great!!!!  Mine is 04 06 19 89....?
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Date: 30 Oct 89 04:36:10 GMT
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In article <1745@atari.UUCP>, apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
> 
> The date in the OS header of the released version is 4/16/1989. You can
> see the date if you dump four bytes of memory starting at $FC0018; the
> date shows up as 04 16 19 89 in hex (for the right version).
> 
> ============================================
> Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
> reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.	  ...ames!atari!apratt

I bought my copy of TOS 1.4 from L&Y at the Washington Atari fest on Oct 8th
(a 12-hour drive from here), and location $FC0018 reads 04 06 19 89.
 
What gives Allan?  BTW, Bob Brodie brought some TOS 1.4 sets up to Washington
for "one of the dealers". if it was L&Y (the other was Best) then I think 
something stinks.

Also, I left a message to Bob on your BBS in Sunnyvale some time ago which 
was not responded to.  I asked if I had a 1/6th illegal copy of TOS 1.4 since
(after a 12-hour drive back) when I tried to install these chips, I found 
that my set contained L0, L2, L2, H0, H1 and H2 but _NO_ L1 chip.
Fortunately, I was not the only one to buy a set, so I made a copy of L1;
so L1 is nicely surrounded by official PROMs (maybe this is why I can't set 
the AUTO option on NeoDesk without causing crashes; it works OK if I start 
NeoDesk manually)  :)

Pierre Fortin

P.S.:  Can you (or anyone at Atari) put DB into Sig 11 on your BBS?  Thanks.