Re: Buyer Beware--MIDWEST MICRO

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From: Michael Dauria
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 14:37

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In article <awesley.775451636@vela.acs.oakland.edu> awesley@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Tony Wesley) writes:
>dauria@eris.cs.umb.edu (Michael Dauria) writes:
>
>>Does gateway still put them old BIOS chips in the systems they sell???
>>Where I work we cringe when we hear the words Gateway 2000 486-33, usually
>>they have a Phoenix 1/15/88 BIOS.
>
>That 1/15/88 date is in most (all?) Phoenix BIOS chips.  It's there because
>some old software expected a particular BIOS and checked the date.  The
>real date is elsewhere in the chip.  I have a "01/15/88" BIOS that is 
>actually 6 years newer, is you check the right address.

How come AMI doesn't put old dates on their BIOS chips then???? Why does 
Phoenix say these BIOS chips should be upgraded? Why will Gateway update
these BIOS chips if they have no problems?

>
>>>Mark (mmanyen@crl.com)
>-- 
>Here's a little song you can all join in with   |  
>It's very simple and I hope it's new            |  Tony Wesley
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Date: 29 Jul 1994 14:37:57 GMT
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