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Re: ][c version????



On 20 Jul 97 17:06:59 GMT, wshek@ibm.net    wrote:
>Usually without opening it you can check the ROM version by
>entering the monitor. (from basic 'call -151')
>then type fbbf and it will display a single byte. (2 hex digit)
>This tells you what ROM version, the chip center near your belly
>on the motherboard is.
>
>$FF = original board (I assume the stiff one spoke of recently)
>$00 = UNIdisk version
>$03 = Memory upgrade version with plug for card at lower
>        right edge of mother board.
>
>Not sure about IIc+ though, did they have a different key?
>
>Let us know what your rom byte is? Of course someone might have upgraded
>the rom chip on an old board but if your case doesn't look tampered with
>it's probably original.
>
>-Walt
>

It's a ROM 0 ][c. The header for this question was a bit misleading.
I'm really just curious on anyone else haveing a ][c with this key
arrangemnet and also the motherboard stamped with a date a year before
the original release.

Dave