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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ROM 1 upgrades
Message-ID: <12132@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Feb 90 14:05:11 GMT
References: <18524.25d7d83d@merrimack.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <18524.25d7d83d@merrimack.edu> pa_rich@merrimack.edu writes:
>Hi everyone, I just bought myself a spare GS for a song, but its only a ROM 1
>machine, is apple offering the upgrade to version 2 still or am I stuck without
>GSOS on this machine?

Where do I start.

There is no "ROM 2".  ROM version 01 is the most recent released for the
original IIGS.  There is a ROM 03 but since it involves a different
motherboard there is no upgrade offered for ROM 01 owners.  At the time
of your ROM 01 upgrade, your machine should also have had its VGC chip
replaced, if it were one of the older versions.  In any case, GS/OS runs
on all ROM versions, although you do need a fair amount of RAM for the
16-bit desktop environment to be really useful.  (1.25 MB total minimum
recommendation.)  So far as I know, Apple has never impose statutes of
limitation on Apple II upgrades, which usually are installed free by the
Apple dealer.