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From: teener@apple.com (Michael Teener)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 32-bit clean ROMs
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Date: 1 Oct 90 16:53:46 GMT
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In article <1990Sep27.184812.22612@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> 
dan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dan Schwarz) writes:
>So Apple does have the technology to update everyone's Mac // series machines
>to be 32-bit clean, should they desire to do so. The major problem? If you
>put in new ROMs, they've got to do something with the old ones. They could
>have a problem like they did with the Mac Plus - dealers would do upgrades
>then sell the old ROMs to Atari and Amiga owners, who were very happy to

Apple insists that the old ROMs are returned to Apple.  Apple bills the 
dealer a *lot* of money for each unreturned ROM.  The two old Mac+ ROMs 
are worth more than a new Mac+.

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