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From: johnl@ima.ISC.COM (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Booting a hard drive with old ROMs
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Date: 2 Feb 88 17:47:36 GMT
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Reply-To: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine)
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In article <3578@ihlpf.ATT.COM> nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP (00704a-Ivan Phillips) writes:
>
>Recently, there was a posting from a person who needed to boot his hard drive
>but he had old ROMs.  ...

I hear that IBM reps are telling their customers with old PCs that since IBM
won't sell them an updated ROM, they should call Phoenix Technologies and get
a Phoenix clone BIOS for their PC.

The Phoenix people are happy to oblige, at a price, and think that the whole
thing is pretty funny.
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