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Subject: Re: ROM BIOS upgrade
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Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 10:38:00 EDT
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/* Written  4:22 pm  Sep  2, 1985 by dueland@isucs1 in ima:net.micro.pc */
> Would it be possible to borrow a set [of IBM ROMs] from a friend and
> take them to a local hacker with a PROM/EPROM burner?

Sure it would.  It's also quite illegal, since the ROMs are copyrighted.
Calling around to the service departments of various IBM dealers usually
will turn one up.  They also ship one with every PC expansion chassis, and
frequently don't use them since recent PCs already have up to date ROMs.

My experience with IBM product centers has been that if they don't have the
item you want in stock, right now, forget it.  It once took two months of
well-intentioned bumbling on their part to get my money back for back-
ordered stuff that never came in.  I'm not surprised they couldn't get the
ROMs.  You might ask if they have any of those funny chips from the expansion
chassis, though.  ("Oh, that's all you wanted?")

John Levine, ima!johnl