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From: rps@homxc.UUCP (R.SHARPLES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BIOS ROM upgrade
Message-ID: <2098@homxc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 13:23:05 EST
Article-I.D.: homxc.2098
Posted: Wed Nov 11 13:23:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 05:37:14 EST
References: <4231@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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Keywords: help!

In article <4231@ihlpg.ATT.COM>, berman@ihlpg.ATT.COM (A.S Berman) writes:
> 
>               Burnt by IBM: A Sad Tale
> 
...
> Now here's the sad tale. After 5 years of solid use, it's time
> to upgrade to a hard disk. But I need a BIOS ROM update kit 
> (I was quoted about $40) so that the system will recognize
> the hard disk.
> 
> Because of the PC/2 push and because post-1982 ROM chips can
> handle the hard disk. IBM no longer manufactures the upgrade,
> and numerous calls to local dealers have proven fruitless.
> 
> Are the any ideas on where I could find the BIOS ROM upgrade
> (part number 1501005) for the IBM-PC?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Scott Berman  ...ihnp4!ihlpg!berman

Copy them.  If IBM is such a jerk as to discontinue something
only 5 years old, they deserve to have their roms stolen.  This
is typical IBM arm twisting to force customers to upgrade.  If
I were you I wouldn't buy new roms, I'd buy a 286 or 386 motherboard
and get rid of all that IBM crap inside the case!  

Russ Sharples
homxc!rps

NOTE:

The above in NO WAY reflects the opinions of AT&T.
AT&T would probably advise the person above to replace his IBM PC with
one of AT&T's state of the art PCs.