Re: Replacing a ROM 01 board with a ROM 03 board

[A2Aviator <a2aviator@gmail.com>]

There's so few things that don't work. A couple of early single load
demo's, and I think they've even been revised. One of the crack screen
displaying modified boot block loaders didn't work, thats an easy fix.
Replace block zero from any disk onto the disk that does not boot so
long as it's a ProDOS file system and not an Origin or SSI product.
Use the Copy II Plus sector editor.

Photonix ... replaced by Photonix II.

A touch tone generating app, aka Blue Box/Apple-Cat II like, it must
use some obscure way of timing, and the GS/OS version of the same type
of application, the keyboard input is ignored.

The added slot flexibility is worth the trade offs. Simply ... having
AppleTalk not eat up the business end of the slots, and instead sit
down there where it should, since after all it's using the connector
anyway. That is, of course.. if you can connect to the damned server
in the first place.

The Mouse Port .. another waste. That should have been hardware level
the moment it was built in like that, and the fallback with the
firmware only for stuff that was not upgraded. I suppose the reliance
on the slot was so that the stealth upgrade users who owned a slot
card could just continue using it. Asinine if you ask me, the ADB port
was right there. Would have been simple to sell the mouse card to
someone else back then. The whole //e upgrade was a great ripoff
anyway. The thing cost nearly the same and all you didn't get was the
keyboard and mouse.

The battery is easier to deal with, though I do find it interesting
that I've definitely seen more of the removable batteries totally puke
all over the board where as the soldered down ones tend to just die in
peace, and thats not dependent on battery brand.