Re: Buyer Beware--MIDWEST MICRO

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From: Tony Wesley
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 03:13

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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.

>>Mark (mmanyen@crl.com)
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