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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Booting a hard drive with old ROMs
Message-ID: <1910@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 88 17:34:21 GMT
References: <3578@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <869@ima.ISC.COM>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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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.
> 
> John R. Levine, IECC, PO Box 349, Cambridge MA 02238-0349, +1 617 492 3869

This must be a new policy for IBM -- IBM did sell me the BIOS upgrade, 
though they were so disorganized at the IBM Sales Office, it was sort of
a miracle.

Clayton E. Cramer