ix408@sdcc6.UUCP (Cris Rys) (04/24/85)
> If you don't mind soldering, great! Assuming, of course, the new logic > board doesn't have hardware changed needed for the new ROM, hardware > changes for bug fixes, or other things that might make old logic boards > incompatible with the new ROMs.... I don't know that this is the case, but > I wouldn't ignore the possibility. In response to the news posted by Chuq Von Rospach, it was stated that the ROMs are soldered into the Mac. Which they are not! It is a very simple procedure to change chips. Basicly Chuq's statement "I don't know that this is the case..." is completely the case. Someone who has not even taken their Mac apart is not even qualified to open his mouth about the hardware of the macintosh. Maybe it is just a case of sour grapes: being stung by Apple to pay $700 for an upgrade that costs only $200! > I don't think it'll be as easy as you might expect, but I also expect that > the people who are building cheap 512K upgrades will figure out some way of > doing ROM upgrades for their customers. People who do their own will have > to wait for DDJ or someone to help out, likely. If they can. I think he does have a point here. I *REALLY* need technical support to take one chip out and replace it with another. I'm glad there are people like him to tell us what we don't know how to do. > Please remember in all of this that Apple designed the Mac NOT to be hacked > in hardware. That is right, of course. If Apple had thier way, we would not have hard disks that go inside the Macintosh. Nor would we have >512k Macs and other nice hardware that is desireable! > So, this isn't a closed door policy on their part, since you > weren't supposed to be in the building at all. I is my computer, I paid for it, I can do anything I want with it. > I don't have figures, but I expect that the number of 'modified' > Macs are a rather small minority of total machines. Correct, the elite are always few. > What this means, of course, is that if you do things to your machine that > you were told not to, like hack the hardware, you are on your own. There > will be third party groups that will support you, I'm sure. For a price, of > course. A price most likely cheaper than Apple's price! > Any good group will be able to take hardware modifications from > Apple such as ROM's and get them to their customers. Don't expect Apple to > do it for you, because their system simply isn't set up that way, and it > shouldn't be. Sigh, you might be right. Apple computer sure has changed. I remember when they used to be prowd of the fact that they were getting computers to the people... But now , they have changed, the Big Blue company that they were trying to outdue they are begining to emulate. Apple is getting out of touch with the consumer... > When you have 250,000 machines out there, you simply can't > survive trying to figure out 10,000 different custom modifications done by > people who might or might not be qualified to hold a soldering iron. Like yourself of course? > There is nobody as small as those who refuse to accept the success of others. Seems to me Chuq, you ended your article quite ironicly! Please, no more flames on this subject, unless you have some qualifications to back up your statements. Cris Rys I might not know how to spell, but at least I know what I'm saying!