I noticed, not anywhere else on the web for that matter. I hope he didn't inadvertently trigger the Dock's self-destruct mechanism by tinkering too far into Apple's alien engineering secrets.
He seemed to indicate that the ROMs were pin compatible, so I guess if I am going to modify my old dock to try this, it would not be too difficult to swap them. I also have an E-Machines MiniDock which uses Apple's exact dock, with an Ethernet port in place of the modem pass through. I would guess that the declaration ROM is identical between the two and E-Machines just bought the dock minus modem circuitry from Apple, added custom circuitry and re-badged it, so all the support I would need for the full dock should be built-in. Seems the NuBus technology works regardless of the Dec. ROM.
As for Byrd's original post, depending on what he wants to do with it, removing that ROM might be the best solution. I may well try Trash80toG4 's mod and see how many of the dock's features are actually disabled. I assumed above that anything he did not specifically mention had been disabled and he may have only been concerned with those things he needed for his project. SCSI & floppy port may still be operational, in which case this is a great solution.