Re: ebay prices

[a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

"william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> wrote:

>Way overpriced.  The Woz was an inferior machine hardware wise
>since most of them had the buggy ROM 0's.

    Actually ALL 'Woz' cover IIgs's shipped with the ROM 00 firmware.
Quite a few of them, but not all, also shipped with the faulty VGC
(Video Graphic Controller) chip. Both correctable though by simply
swapping the older chips--Apple did it as a free upgrade for years.

>The only thing worth getting is the Woz Limited Edition cover.

    That's the only thing that makes them unique, and those covers
are not what I'd call rare. Just less common than plain covers.

>It appears to have a 1 meg Apple RAM card and some kind of
>sound card.

    It looks to be an Applied Engineering SonicBlaster. Not one of
the better quality stereo cards and not rare either (now if it were
a FutureSound board, that would be different).

>However, it is not listed as being sold with the machine.
>It also appears to have an internal fan on the power supply which
>is not original equipment.

    Not as standard, but Apple did sell an internal cooling fan for 
Apple IIgs's that clipped onto the side of the powersupply. It
wasn't very popular as it cost over US$50, managed to block
two slots, was noisy and didn't do much than circulate warm
air inside. The System Saver or Conserver were far better
cooling solutions.

Mitchell Spector
a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca