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- From: RFowler@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert A. Fowler)
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- Subject: Re: New 586 making older machines obsolete?
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- Date: 22 Jul 92 00:29:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.212920.19138@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU (CHU JEFFREY) writes:
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- >In article <BrpLA5.767@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- >>In article <1992Jul19.054410.12713@ucc.su.OZ.AU> chrisa@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (C. G. Albone) writes:
- >>
- >>>Just need the ROMS? Maybe it is a silly question, but where on earth do you
- >>>get Mac ROMS from? The last I heard, Apple protected its ROMS with all the
- >>>legal force it could muster (which is why we have no mac clones). As far as I
- >>>know, the only place to get the ROMS, is from a Mac. Of course, correct me
- >>>if i am wrong, I'd love to replace the mac that takes up deskspace with a card
- >>>in my 396 ;-)
- >>
- >>On the black market of course 9-)
- >>
- >>I wonder why Apple didn't just solder the stupid
- >>things in... 9-)
- >>
- >>
- >>
- >>
- >Why not just pick up a broken PLUS/512 system with ROMS that are ok.
- Because those 128k roms (old version of the operating system) and wont run
- anything newer than about system 3.
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- The 256k roms in Mac+s will run up to system 6, for system 7 you have to
- have a Mac II or an upgraded (new motherboard) of the older Macs
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