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From: $CSB205@LSUVM.BITNET (Mark Orr)
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Subject: Re: IIe to Enhanced IIe
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Date: 19 Jun 91 17:00:02 GMT
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|From:         agate!ucsee.Berkeley.EDU!chiu@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU
|Subject:      Re: IIe to Enhanced IIe

|I fear that you may have been misleaded by someone (an unknowledgable Apple
|ealer perhaps?) Upgrade from a IIe to ehnanced IIe requirs mere replacement o
|several chips -- character generator ROM (for mouse text), CD, EF ROM
|(for new 80-column text firmware; old version contains some annoying bugs)
|and a new CPU (65C02).
|
|But if you're talking about from a Rev.A board, that's a whole different
|ball game... (sort of)

You're right...But I was just relating from my experience. I bought my //e
in early '83 (paid for it before my dealer got his first shipment), so I had
a REV.A board. When I upgraded to a enhanced //e a few years back I remember
the technician say "that motherboard s'gotta go!" I don't know...maybe I got
ripped off.

Why not get a GS motherboard? Maybe he dosen't want one...

|Interesting thing about the enhancement upgrade -- The 'enhancement kit'
|I purchased through mail order did not contain REAL Apple ROM chips!
|(well, they certainly did not carry proper copyright stickers), although
|they are functionally identical to the real thing. (Why hasn't Apple's
|law-suit-happy lawers spring into action, YET?)

Come to think of it...I remember seeing one of those "enhancement kits" at my
dealer. White box...picture of enh. //e motherboards on it (alas it is too
small to contain a motherboard). My //e ROMs don't have stickers on them
either.

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