Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcdc!bayes From: bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac 128K Roms Message-ID: <11010051@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Date: 9 Mar 89 18:55:52 GMT References: <499@hippo.UUCP> Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co. Lines: 26 >In article <20567@dhw68k.cts.com> thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com.cts.com (Ken McLeod) writes: >[intro text deleted] >> 1) There were actually FOUR different versions of the Mac+ ROM, not 2. >> According to various sources (including the infamous Tech Note on >> this subject), they are: >> >> 128K (original) - "Lonely Hearts" * problem booting w/SCSI devices >> 128K revision 1 - "Lonely Hearse" * rare; in very few machines >> 128K revision 2 - "Lonely Heifer" * most beige Pluses have these >> 128K revision 3 - "Loud Harmonicas" * current; platinum Pluses have these >[more stuff deleted] > >How did those bizarre names come about for the ROMs? I can't even begin to >imagine (although I'm sure that the L's and H's have something to do with >it) what these have to do with the ROM version number... > > >Brad Koehn >U-W Madison >"Fly like an Emu!" Could "Lonely Hearts" come from Sergeant Pepper???? Maybe the Beatles do have a case for suiing Apple... Scott "I am not the Walrus!! I am a Free Man!!" Bayes