Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!genbank!apple!fox!portal!atari!kbad From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Rainbow TOS ROMs (AGAIN!) Message-ID: <1827@atari.UUCP> Date: 28 Nov 89 00:12:12 GMT References: <891108225856E11.WKMZ@CSUGREEN.UCC.COLOSTATE.EDU> <1797@atari.UUCP> <616@nixpbe.UUCP> <1811@atari.UUCP> <1202@electro.UUCP> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 31 ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko) writes: | can you tell us with any great certainty if you will accept a trade from the | 6 eprom set to the 2 rom set with no additional cost????? I can't tell you with any certainty, but I can certainly offer my opinion. It is my opinion that Atari will NOT accept trades. Why did you buy the 6 chip set in the first place if you don't feel you can use them? | if we here at electrohome don't have to butcher our motherboard [...] The modification to install 6 ROM chips in a machine currently using 2 ROMs is in no way a butcher job. It is a simple, clean modification, which was part of the original design of the machines when they went from 6 chips to 2. It does, however, require some electronics and soldering experience. | the 6 eproms make the atari feel like its a cheap clone of the real thing. I can't believe what I'm reading here. EPROMs were made available due to popular demand. Very few sets of EPROMs were sold: around 150, I'm told. As soon as OTP's were available, _they_ were sold instead, and likewise with masked ROMs. If the "cheap clone" statement was intended to be a joke, it's a bad joke. In case you can't tell, this is an extremely sensitive issue with me personally, because I personally worked very hard to make the Rainbow TOS ROMs available to developers and to the general public. I am truly appreciative of all the Emails of thanks that I've gotten. I also truly take complaints very seriously. -- ||| Ken Badertscher (ames!atari!kbad) ||| Atari R&D System Software Engine / | \ #include