Re: Apple IIGS ROM 1 or ROM 3, which is better?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

magnusfalkirk wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm trying to decide whether or not I should swap out the motherboard
> in my IIGS. It's currently a ROM 1 but I've got a ROM 3 motherboard
> that I bought from Ebay. In fact I bought the motherboard before I
> bought the IIGS, also from Ebay, thinking I might be able to upgrade
> my IIe to a IIGS by installing the IIGS motherboard. Since the
> motherboard turned out to be a ROM 3 that option went out the window.
>
> So now my question is would it make sense to upgrade my IIGS with the
> ROM 3 motherboard? What are the advantages and disadvantages? The fist
> advantage that comes to my mind is the 1 meg of ram, and 256k ROM,
> that are part of the ROM 3 board.
>
> Any and all comments and advice from this community are more than
> welcome.

A Google Groups search on this topic will turn up several discussions,
one of them (a year or two ago) pretty definitive.

Bottom line, go for the ROM 3 upgrade.

Then you can put the ROM 01 into your //e--though for my money, that's
a *downgrade* (I prefer the //e to the IIgs ;-).

-michael

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