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From: howarde@mmintl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: PC ROM copying
Message-ID: <1791@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 6-Sep-86 10:48:18 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  6 10:48:18 1986
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Reply-To: howarde@mmintl.UUCP (Howard Eglowstein)
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In article <1697@well.UUCP> tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney) writes:
>But what do you do when you go to an IBM product center and TRY to buy the
>ROM upgrade, but are told that they won't sell it to you unless you buy
>their expansion chasis?  And then they take your name just in case they ever
>get any more in stock, and SIX MONTHS LATER they get one.  


I've seen that happen before, and the best way around this brain damage is
to swallow hard and buy it from an authorized dealer/repair center.  It
costs serious amounts of money, but that's one of the many advantages you
get by buying an IBM product - the ability to spend money on it. (Not true
of all products - I have a 31 yr. old IBM Executive that still types
beautifully and costs almost nothing to maintain.)


BTW - Copying the ROMs is illegal, and I have heard of IBM dealers refusing
to repair units that have copied ROMs in them.  If you dupe the ROMs and
have a problem that requires an authorized dealer, you may be out of luck.