26 Jun
2001
26 Jun
'01
3:19 a.m.
I can answer this one.
rom01 and rom03 motherboards are different from the rom0 (WOZ edition)
GSs. The reason (I imagine) that the ethernet board requires at least ROM01
is that GS0S6.0.1 requires it, and the tcpip stack requires THAT.
I may be wrong about the motherboard revision between ROM0 and ROM01, I have
this vague memory that they used to ship a rom upgrade for these.
In any case, I have a ROM01 GS that I'd be willing to part with cheap.
I'd have to test it to make sure it still works - it's been dropped -
but I expect it will. I've got drives, printer cards, a 4 meg ram expansion
card (which GSOS 6.0.1 will want) and so on. Contact me privately if you're
interested.
Well... it's about 10x what I paid for my
AppleIIGS, but I'm tempted. If
I hadn't gotten off the Apple cart before the IIe, I'd probably be getting
one, but I'd moved on by 1985 (traded up from the 6502 to the 68000 with
the Amiga in 1986!) What I am curious about, though, is that since that
webpage mentions the minimum system requirements for a GS as being ROM rev 1
or 3, and I know I have a rev 1, how could I go about getting a rev 3 ROM?
Are they for sale anywhere? For download? Are they pin-compatible with
a 2764/27128/27256? (I ask because I know in the Commodore line, the
mask-programmed ROMs are *not* always JEDEC compatible, which is why I have
a stash of 2532 EPROMS)
-ethan
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