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ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko) writes:

| can you tell us with any great certainty if you will accept a trade from the
| 6 eprom set to the 2 rom set with no additional cost?????
I can't tell you with any certainty, but I can certainly offer my opinion.
It is my opinion that Atari will NOT accept trades.  Why did you buy the
6 chip set in the first place if you don't feel you can use them?

| if we here at electrohome don't have to butcher our motherboard [...]
The modification to install 6 ROM chips in a machine currently using 2 ROMs
is in no way a butcher job.  It is a simple, clean modification, which was
part of the original design of the machines when they went from 6 chips to 2.
It does, however, require some electronics and soldering experience.

| the 6 eproms make the atari feel like its a cheap clone of the real thing.
I can't believe what I'm reading here.  EPROMs were made available due to
popular demand.  Very few sets of EPROMs were sold: around 150, I'm told.
As soon as OTP's were available, _they_ were sold instead, and likewise
with masked ROMs.

If the "cheap clone" statement was intended to be a joke, it's a bad
joke. In case you can't tell, this is an extremely sensitive issue with
me personally, because I personally worked very hard to make the
Rainbow TOS ROMs available to developers and to the general public.
I am truly appreciative of all the Emails of thanks that I've gotten.
I also truly take complaints very seriously.

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   |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)
   |||   Atari R&D System Software Engine
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