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From: m_herodotus@coors.dec.com (Mario Herodotus - Digital Customer Support Center (800) 525-6570)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: SE/30 -> 32 bit clean ROMS?
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Date: 20 Oct 90 10:40:39 GMT
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In article <10744@goofy.Apple.COM>, rubin@Apple.COM (Owen R. Rubin) writes...
> 
>(These are my comments and I do not speak for Apple:)
> 
>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?
> 
>"Gee, I have an 84 Vette that does not have ABS breaks. I wonder when Chevrolet
>will offer me an upgrade kit for my Vette!!!!!! Its not fair!!!!!!!!"
> 
> 
>Yea, right!
> 
>-- 
>-Owen-
>rubin@apple.com or RUBIN1@AppleLink.apple.com
>*----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>* The above are my ideas, my feelings, & my writings (unless noted) and this 
>* is my disclaimer. Also, spelling errors don't count in vi. right? :-)
>*----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Nice try Owen but at least I can take my 84 Vette in to the dealer and get a 
pretty good price for as trade in value.  Until Apple starts offering trades I 
wouldn't use that one anymore.  

Take your Vette to a dealer some day and I bet they will sell you anything that 
you want to buy, as long as it is replaceable (heck they'll sell you the ABS 
system even if it won't fit your 84 Vette)! 

By the way ABS is a bit different than asking for a ROM upgrade.  I'm sure that 
if you took your Vette in for new tires they'd do that.  We're not asking Apple 
for a new CPU in our machines or a new bus structure, but some of us bought 
these machines because they had slotted ROMs and they were expandable.  I 
always figured Apple put the ROMs on SIMMs so that they could upgrade them 
later.  

Now I haven't heard anything official either, and I keep hoping that as system 
7 gets closer Apple will offer a ROM upgrade.  I know that Apple doesn't want 
its ROMs getting into the wrong hands, but if they implement the exchange 
properly this shouldn't happen - you MUST trade an old ROM SIMM for a new one, 
and all dealers MUST return as many ROMs as they buy or send back the new 
unused ROMs.

Mario

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