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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Rom 04 comment
Message-ID: <39160@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 3 Mar 90 19:06:41 GMT
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In article <1562@darkstar.ucsc.edu> lunatic@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Lunatic) writes:
>    ___
>     |hat's another use for them.  What happens when an owner of a
>ROM 01 machine comes in for repairs that require a motherboard
>swapout and the ROM 01 machines are no longer being made?  (Which
>has already happened with the release of ROM 03.)  Unfortunately,
>Apple is not going to swap in a newer model motherboard.  I can't
>remember the exact reason they won't give you a newer motherboard, 
>but please take my word for it, I've checked.
>
The availability of service parts is mostly unrelated to CPUs in production.
If you take an unenhanced IIe in to be fixed, you get an unenhanced IIe
motherboard back, even though those haven't been in new CPUS in five years.


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