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Offline Argus

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The Rev 4 or 6 should be silkscreened on the lower left hand corner of the motherboard.  Further factory enhancements were usually indicated by the addition of a tiny white sticker somewhere near the top of the Zorro slots (but may have since fallen off).  Rev 4 boards have iirc 32 chip ram chips while Rev 6 have only 8.  You can usually tell an upgraded Rev. 4.x board up to Rev.4.5 iirc if you see a resistor soldered onto the top of the small chip located between the cpu slot and the first Zorro 2 slot (U605?).  The uprated boards should also have a different Gary chip (MOS), a modification near the mouse connector and a resistor added near the power supply connector.  There's a good description on how to upgrade a Rev. 4 boards to 4.5 on Usenet.
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