Re: ROM 3 vs ROM 03?

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <2sc5ra$blf@nuscc.nus.sg>,
Lim Thye Chean <ltchean@iss.nus.sg> wrote:

>        Well, I was told that the ROM 3 is newer than the ROM 03. I do not
>have any specs supporting the documentation of the newer ROM 3 motherboard
>but I was told some of the newer features of it :

I have never seen a IIgs which says ROM 03 including when they hit the dealers
when they first came out.

>        (1) Expanded ToolBox (5.0.4 Tools in ROM)

Rom 3's came out when system 5.0 debuted so only 5.0 toolsets will be in ROM

>        (2) Newer version of Ensoniq (how true I am not sure)

My ROM 3 has the same part number on the Ensoniq as my ROM 01, 343-0051-A,
(C) Apple 86

>        (3) Sharper, Crispier and louder music (sound)

Due to the redesigned logic board on ROM 3

>        (4) Due to the '1' there is no Ctrl-open apple-closed apple-N
>            that shows the peole who bought us the IIGS.

On the contrary ROM 3's display more names than a ROM 01 and even plays a
digitized sound of the designers yelling "Apple II!"

>Any comment?

I expect that the ROM 03 thing is a myth like the supposed ROM 2 machine.

I have heard of some ROM 3's having a defect such that the bit in PRAM that
causes the ROM CDA's to be installed can't be cleared. Never seen such a
machine myself.
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