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From: ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward)
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Subject: Re: Disturbing rumor re -- ROM upgrade and RAM/Hyperdrive upgrade
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Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 11:14:06 EST
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> The ROM's, I believe, are soldered in place

You believe wrong.  The ROMs are in sockets, and can be easily
replaced.

> What this means, of course, is that if you do things to your machine that
> you were told not to, like hack the hardware, you are on your own.

This is the real issue, isn't: we weren't doing what we were
told to do.  Well, you've been a good boy, so you get to be the
ball monitor.  I stopped letting my mommy and daddy tell me what
to do a long time ago, and don't intend to let a greedy corporation
take their place.

Sooner or later there will be a computer company that cares about
the people that buy its products.  At that time Apple will just
dry up and blow away like the rotten fruit it is.