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Hi, I ordered a Utilities Unlimited Emplant for company evaluation today…and have some interesting information about the (non?) product. Utilities Unlimited claims that they will be shipping the product in 25 days or less; the boards are being fabricated right now, and are due back within that time frame. They also promised to not charge my card until the boards ship…I will be verifying that. Of course, I asked them where one gets the needed ROM in order to use their miracle product…their reply was Shreve Systems. In case you are not familiar with Shreve, they are a major mail order supplier of new and reconditioned Mac parts. They told me that "we do not stock ROMs for any machine besides the Plus…don't know where you would find such a thing". Hmmm…. I also called Pre-Owned electronics, and they pretty much told me the same thing that Shreve did. These ROMs are not commonly available. Lastly…the one sure way to get the ROMs is to buy a system board from one of these guys. Shreve is advertising a MacII board for *$899*… Sooo…even if Emplant does work as advertised (and I know that most folks are at least a bit skeptical), getting the needed ROM is going to prove *very* difficult, indeed. Lastly…don't be surprised if there is an included utility to put the ROM image on disk. I could just imagine a whole user-group going in on a Mac motherboard, and pirating the ROM…or, having Mac ROM images showing up on Amiga bulletin boards. If anyone has purchased one of these things, or has some further insight on it, please respond! Jonathan