Re: Production Apple IIgs in IIe case EBay ad- What's wrong with this picture?

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

Rubywand wrote:
> 
>      As you can see, "knowledgeable friend" addition includes a claim
> that the GS is a ROM-01. How can the friend be sure of this? At the time
> of the early IIe-->IIgs conversions, the motherboard would normally be a
> ROM-00 version. A ROM-00, of course, requires the ROM-01 upgrade
> ($29.00) in order to run modern GS software.

When I upgraded my IIe to a IIgs, I got a ROM-00 motherboard.  After
reading about the free ROM-01 upgrade for the ROM and VGC (which I
didn't need) I immediately went to my local Apple dealer and got the
ROM replaced.  You can't get a free upgrade now, but I the only reason
I can see people not having upgraded to the ROM-01 was that they
didn't know the free upgrade was available.

I've had a ROM-01 ever since.  However, since then I traded my IIe
keyboard for a French Canadian Mac ADB keyboard and then I bought a
IIgs case from an Apple Dealer.  I used my IIe power supply as an
external power supply until just recently when I made an adapter cable
to hook up an IBM power supply to my IIgs.

I think I still have my old IIe case (sans keyboard) around here
somewhere.

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