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From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SE/30 -> 32 bit clean ROMS?
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.200801.18277@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 17 Oct 90 20:08:01 GMT
References: <3325@orbit.cts.com> <1990Oct16.120133.15666@lth.se> <10744@goofy.Apple.COM>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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rubin@Apple.COM (Owen R. Rubin) writes:

>>[stuff deleted about possible 32-bit clean ROM upgrades]

>As I read these comments I often wonder if you people also complain to 
>BMW and Chevrolet and Ford (etc) about upgrades to your cars?

  Pray tell, then, why Apple bothered to put a ROM SIMM socket in there in
the first place?  Surely if they're never going to offer an upgrade, it
was just a waste of componentry (and we could all have saved $0.10c [make that
$10.00 when you add on Apple's markup :-| ] on our machines if they had 
eliminated it).

  I don't mind paying something reasonable for those ROMs... (say like $200),
but I don't think that's going to happen.   Why?  Apple's too afraid of
letting those ROMs into the wrong hands...  Remember the debacle of the
10,000 128K ROMs? 
 
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>-Owen-
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