Re: Question about ROM 03 machines

[drees@plains.NoDak.edu (Steve Drees)]

In article <1993May2.041207.25616@osl.or.gov> visitor@ednet1.osl.or.gov (Compass Guest) writes:
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>>I have a chance to buy a ROM 03 GS from around 1988-1990 era. I understand
>>that when the first ROM 03s were released the ROM was not burnt correctly and
>>had to be replaced. How can I tell if this machine has or does not have the
>>defective ROMs. Is there a revision mark on the chips?
> 
>        I don't know 'bout problems with burning the ROMs, but the ROM 03
>has some -VERY- maddening bugs - like not running half of the FTAs demos.

When a programmer makes undocumented firmware calls and they don't work on
newer machines, that does not mean that the ROMs are buggy. That means that
the programmer broke the rules! The ROM 3 only has one bug that I know of
and Jay Krell wrote a PIF that fixes it.

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