Re: net.micro.apple discovers the IIgs, was Re: The Apple IIGS - 25th anniversary!

["Marc S. Ressl" <mressl@gmail.com>]

On 15 sep, 16:12, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
> Selected articles from net.micro.apple at the time of the IIgs release:
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>
> 20 Oct 1986 3:21 pm
>
> "    I have seen the future of color graphics - it is the Apple IIGS.
> I have seen the future of computerized sound - it is the Apple IIGS.
>
> All I can say is Wow. Totally stunned and destroyed. Awesome. Great, even.
> First, the pictures I have seen in A+ and other magazines do not show the
> computer's size to scale. It is substantially smaller than the //e, almost
> the size of the //c. Tiny in comparison to say, an inferior IBM (ok, that is
> redundant and repetitive; sorry :-)) ).Yet, still as expandable as a //e
> (the IIGS I saw had a 1-meg expansion installed; Mac + owners BEWARE{I
> should
> know, I am one})."
>
> Read More:http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=6&thread=2116&id=3229
>
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>
> 03 Oct 1986 5:41 pm
>
> "One other thing that I forgot to mention... What happened to the CASSETTE
> PORT.. Hey Apple whats up????
>
> Kidding aside they could've had more *(*)s and given us some better
> basic.... I plunked my name on a list anyway..... Everyone is talking about
> the bus being only 16 bits... I read that the data bus is 24 bits... Is this
> the internal bus??? Also they could've givven us some 16 bit expander slots
> to play with.... "
>
> Read More:http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=6&thread=2031&id=3068
>
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>
> 29 Sep 1986 5:59 am
>
> "The Apple //gs was officially unveiled Staurday, Sept 27th to the
> public.  The machine has most of the rumored features we have been
> hearing about for the past few months.  The speed is a little disappoi-    
>
> pointing (2.8 mhz) considering that 4 and 6 mhz versions of the 65816
> areare available.  I predict that some hardware manufacturer will have
> an accelerator board for the //gs on the market within a year.  The
> graphics of the machine are probably what people are most interested
> in.  It has the older modes plus two new modes: 640 X 200 and 320 X 200.
> The rumors about 768 X 512 were just rumors I guess.  The 200 vertical
> resolution is a little disappointing too.  Engineers at Apple pushed for
> 400 vertical resolution but were overruled because of the expense of
> RGB monitors that can display such graphics without flickering."
>
> Read More:http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=6&thread=2019&id=3048
>
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>
> 17 Sep 1986 2:35 pm
>
> "Personallyni'm not really that impressed. I mean they took alot from the
> MAC
> with all the windows/icons and stuff. I would of thought that the graphics
> would be alot bette and wit should've had a SCSi port built in. While
> reading
> the aricle I just felt that they just designed it with the what was already
> done with the //e [by 3rd parties]just put it all in a neater package I''ll
> wait till I see a REAL one before deciding to go IBM or not"
>
> Read More:http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=6&thread=1999&id=3014
>
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>
> 13 Sep 1986 12:23 am
>
> "I thought net.micro.apple would be flooded by the end of this week with
> news and specs about the apple IIgs. I read an article in a magazine
> (computable) which was to detailed to be just a rumor."
>
> Read More:http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=6&thread=1998&id=3010
>
> --
> ]DF$
> Mac GUI Vault - A source for retro Apple II and
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This is terrible news! This means I'm at least 25 years old! :-D

Happy birthday!

Marc.-