Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!YALEVM.BITNET!EWING From: EWING@YALEVM.BITNET (Rick Ewing) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: New IIgs ROMs Message-ID: <8708241225.aa06343@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 03:30:41 EDT Article-I.D.: SMOKE.8708241225.aa06343 Posted: Sun Aug 23 03:30:41 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Aug-87 00:44:42 EDT References: Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 14 To answer Larry Virden's question about the confusing upgrades, some IIgs owners will need full blown motherboard replacements, others will need only ROM chip replacements. What's happened is that the original old IIgs (Woz) owners all had the old ROM and the old VGC video chip. Since the video chip is soldered to the board, Apple prefers one's dealer to completely replace the motherboard rather than whip out the soldering gun and make a fix. These users will have their motherboard swapped out. Now Apple has been offering a free VGC fix for users for a little while now and some users have gone back for it. These users, along with people that bought their machines in the last couple of months, now have the correct VGC chip, but the old ROMs. These owners will only have to wait for a ten minute ROM upgrade swap, since ROMs on the IIgs are socketed (thus, easily removable). Anyone who buys a IIgs now will have both the new ROMs and the new VGC, and won't have to do anything but watch for ProDOS-16 2.0 and Finder, coming to a IIgs near you, Real Soon Now.