Re: Apple IIGS still rules!

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"bo snyder" <bobo_snyder@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> i usually do old 8bit ataris myself, but your mentioning of a compact mac
> reminds me that i bought a pretty cool compact mac over the weekend.  i
got
> a mac plus (have NO idea what kind of upgrades, etc are in it) and an
> external 20 meg (woooohoooo!!) scsi drive.  i got it to be kind of a
gateway
> between my pc network (with a powermac 7500 on it too) and the apple 2 gs
> that i have been playing with lately.

The Mac Plus wasn't too upgradeable so the only thing it might have
inside that wasn't stock is the 4 meg upgrade and/or an accelerator
board which is not likely.  Why can't you use the Powermac 7500
to connect to your IIgs using Appletalk?  The Mac Plus wouldn't
make a good translator to the PC world since it only had 800k GCR
floppy drives and not the newer super drives found in the later Mac's.
I have a Mac Performa 575 which I am using for that purpose since
it can read Prodos and MS-DOS diskettes using its built in 1.44 meg
floppy drive. I also have it Appletalked to my IIgs.

> the thing i wished i had gotten was the full page monitor that was sitting
> neext to it (one of those radius monitors).  it was just too big and i
have
> a very tiny car (a honda crx) and it was already packed full.  went back
to
> the rummage sale yesterday and the sale was over.  bummer.

That would be cool. I always thought back when I used to do more
Desktop Publishing task that it would be a neat thing to have. These
days I am more into web publishing so that is not so important anymore.
Especially with a 17" monitor.

> what other kind of old computers do you have?
>
> bo
>
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