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

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney) writes...

>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.

    The largest group of Apple IIgs's that were never upgraded were
those installed in schools. Even though some teachers were aware of
the upgrade program, many decided not to even bother since these 
GS's were being used as accelerated Apple IIe's with color video. 
In emulation mode, there is no advantage gained in upgrading the 
ROM whatsoever (unless a 4 MB RAM Disk wasn't good enough). :)

    I remember at my own high school, I bugged them for years to
upgrade their GS that had a faulty VGC and ROM 00. Eventually, in
my final year, I offered to take it in to the dealer myself to
have it upgraded (which is what happened). Too bad it was stolen
just a year or two later, I guess someone thought it was some
varient of the Macintosh II. :)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca