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From: hogan@rosevax.UUCP (Andy Hogan)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Mac+ Upgrade query
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Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 17:46:46 EST
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> > A question:  Will the ROM upgrade be a complete board swap, or a 
> > simple chip change?  If'n its a board swap, is there anything those
> > of us with Dr. Dobbs or other 3rd party upgrades can do to get the
> > new ROMs?
> 
> The ROM upgrade can only be had with the double-sided disk upgrade.
> The list price is $299 ...

This may have been discussed before; if so, I missed it.  Why is the
ROM upgrade tied to upgrading the internal drive to the two-sided
version?  The new ROMs apparently handle external single-sided drives
OK, so why not the old internal as well?  The additional cost of the new
drive makes the total cost very high compared to what the new ROMs 
alone should cost.  (I hope very much this is not the reason behind
this, or Apple will lose face once again.)  Not to mention disk hassles
(assuming that not all of my "single-sided" disks will be good enough for 
two-sided use.)

I realize the *desirability* of 800K for the internal/usually-system-&-
application disk, but this doesn't mean everyone should have to pay
for a new drive (especially if the old one is still working fine!) in
order to get the new ROMs.  Is there NO benefit to the new ROMs without
larger disk drives?

-- 
Andy Hogan   Rosemount, Inc.   Mpls MN
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