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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Fact for tat..
Message-ID: <38732@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Feb 90 20:31:25 GMT
References: <10757.infoapple.net@pro-generic>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <10757.infoapple.net@pro-generic> sysop@pro-generic.cts.com (Matthew Montano) writes:
>
>A brand new ROM3 //gs was recieved by a friend of mine who runs a small
>dealership in Oakville, ON. When he recieved it, he opened it up to install
>the TWGS, Sonic Blaster and SCSI card.. and he noticed something, well..
>weird.
>
>The ROM's are 28 pin ROM's.. yet they are in larger 32 pin sockets! It looks
>rather weird if you ask me.
>
>Make from it what you want...
>
>UUCP: crash!pro-generic!sysop
>ARPA: crash!pro-generic!sysop@nosc.mil
>INET: sysop@pro-generic.cts.com

As the first really big shipments of ROM 03 machines was about to come over
here on the Slow Boat, we discovered a bug in the ROM that caused it never,
ever to work with ROM disks.  Rather than put the world through an incredibly
annoying upgrade procedure which everyone would have wanted even though it was
only for ROM disks, we unpacked all the machines and replaced them with EPROMs
that had the bug fixed (as well as a QuickDraw bug that caused it not to work
with pixelmaps larger than 64K reliably).  The EPROMs just didn't happen to be
the same size as the sockets for the mask ROMs.  I don't know how that works,
not being a hardware dude, but all of the first shipment or so of ROM 03 GS
machines look like that.  Even mine at work.

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