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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 32-bit Clean ROM upgrade - list created.
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Date: 22 Apr 91 22:04:10 GMT
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In article <13341.2812ef32@ecs.umass.edu>, hagan@ecs.umass.edu writes:
|> someone mentioned about the mac II's being let out in
|> the ROM list idea, for an upgrade. If an upgrade comes about,
|> the people with straght II's will be left in the dust.
|> Although it is very much less reasonably priced, 
|> a person with a mac II can upgrade to a IIx or IIfx.
|> which would give you access to the new roms, or at least the
|> rom upgrade.
Just spotted on the Stanford price list:
  M6051/A   Mac II FDHD and ROM upgrade Kit $337
i.e., you can get new ROMs without upgrading to a IIx. However, the
IIx ROMs _are not_ 32-bit clean, which is the point of this thread.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu