RE: Original IIgs ROM upgrade?

[bpvh@shell1.msn.fullfeed.com (Bradley VonHaden)]

John Le Febvre <john@klatch.demon.co.uk> wrote: 

>A friend has an original IIgs which he thinks is a ROM 0.  He
>seems to think that this can only be upgraded to a ROM 01, and
>that he would need a ROM 02 to upgrade to a ROM 03.

To tell the ROM version look at the bottom of the scene on boot-up.  Not
sure what a ROM 0 would say but ROM 01's and ROM 03's identify themselves.

>Can someone tell me if this is true, and if not, what he could
>possibly upgrade to?  I think he is still running pre GS/OS
>software.

The upgrade from ROM 0 to ROM 01 requires a few chip changes.  As others
have said, at least in the US, this has been a free upgrade from a local
Apple dealer.  To upgrade to a ROM 03 requires a motherboard change. 
Either a ROM 0 or ROM 01 is a candidate for a ROM 03 upgrade.  The ROM 03
motherboard is not cheap, about $175 with exchange of a working ROM 01 -
again, in the US.

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