On Jun 14, 2004, at 7:55 AM, Michael Shaw wrote:
If anyone has a 7300 they could look into I'd appreciate it.
I'm furbishing up a 7300/180 that may or may not have a few pieces missing. On the motherboard there is an empty slot that has ROM printed beside it, looks like it takes a BIG DIMM at one end of the RAM sockets.
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The computer works just fine and Apple System Profiler says that it knows that it is a 7300/180 so I'm wondering...
Where's the ROM if the ROM SIMM is not there and how can this thing work without it ?????
That slot was never used, afaict. Apple *did* intend it to be used for ROM upgrades or replacements, but like many technologies Apple implemented in the 90's it went nowhere and was never used, replaced by the new hardware design du jour, in this case, the G3 Powermacs, which *did* have the ROM on a replaceable DIMM, but a different design one, iirc.
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