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- From: danb@pro-sol.cts.com (Dan Brown)
- Subject: Re: IIgs upgrade options
- Organization: ProLine [pro-sol], Rancho San Diego, CA
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 22:46:33 PST
- Message-ID: <lh83338@pro-sol.cts.com>
- In-Reply-To: bing@zinc.cchem.berkeley.edu (Bing Ho)
- References: <1gjq3cINN6d6@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In <1gjq3cINN6d6@agate.berkeley.edu>
- bing@zinc.cchem.berkeley.edu (Bing Ho) writes:
-
- >I picked up one of the mags still around for the Apple II and some mail
- >order places mention version 3.0 ROMS, and I've poked around on ftp.apple.com
- >and have seen gs-os 6.0. Is this upgrade worth it and should I go to the
- >new operating system?
-
- The 3.0 ROMs you're seeing are certainly not for a GS per se; perhaps
- for a RAMFast SCSI Card. Yes, you should get System 6, but you might want to
- visit a local user group and get it for free instead of spending $40 to buy
- the whole package. A ROM 3 GS has more RAM than a ROM 01, and a few more
- toolsets built in. Functionally, under System 6, that's about the only
- difference.
-
- >Also, I only have 512k of ram and I've been led on to believe that the last
- >gs-specific programs required more ram than that. What can I afford along
- >with this ROM upgrade?
-
- You absolutely need more RAM. For under $150, you can bring your
- machine up to 4 megs, which is sufficient for most purposes. If you don't
- want to spend that much, I'd be happy to take the machine for what you paid
- for it... B-)
-
- >Thanks for any help anybody can offer me.
-
- You're welcome. :-)
-
- >Bing Ho
- >bing@zinc.cchem.berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley
-
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