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From: cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Carl J.M. Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Why more memory capability can be a significant hassle!!
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.190239.18793@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 91 19:02:39 GMT
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In article <1991Jun18.140625.7876@gorm.ruc.dk> jba@gorm.ruc.dk 
(Jan B. Andersen) writes:
>
>Say I buy some new 32bit ROMs after finally having convinced management, that
>lots of memory (VM or not) is great for geographic mapping projects, but
>they'll only let me buy three sets of ROMs for installing in Mac-1, Mac-2
>and Mac-3. Three weeks later I'll spend 1/2 hour every day, explaining a
>student why s/he can't work on Mac-4 with the map s/he created yesterday
>on Mac-3!
 
BFD.  Apple can solve this problem by putting an appropriate "clean ROM"
decal in each upgrade kit.  As part of the installation procedure, the 
technician will attach the decal, covering the old machine name.
It won't take long for users to figure out that there's a big difference
between a "Macintosh SE/30" and a "Macintosh SE/30-cr"
 
--Carl Alexander                  |           BCS*Mac 
News Editor, The Active Window    |  The Boston Computer Society 
cjeff@silver.lcs.mit.edu          |     Macintosh Users Group