Re: I have to admit, I really like my IIgs

["John King, Jr." <joki@eskimo.com>]

Pretty much the same thing happened to me. I had no idea what a IIgs was and
now I don't use the IIe anymore.


"Ernest" <ernestls@home.com> wrote in message
news:BLaI5.3016$E85.61866@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com...
> I guess that may sound strange but when I began collecting Apple II
things,
> I wasn't at all interested in the IIgs systems. The Apple II's look old,
and
> kind of funky, like a vintage computer should look, and the IIgs reminded
me
> to much of a newer Mac, and Macs don't excite me very much. However, I
found
> a ROM 3 system a couple of weeks ago, and I have to say that I really like
> it now. I bought it for purely utilitarian reasons -to shift SHK files
from
> my Mac to my IIe, by using the 3.5" disk and 5.25" disk drives on the
IIgs.
> That's all that I wanted it for but after I took it apart, cleaned it, and
> set up my SCSI card/hard drive in it, I discovered that it's a very nice
> system. In fact, it's beginning to spoil me a bit, especially since it
boots
> from the hard drive, and has tons of memory. I was pleasantly surprised.
>
> Ernest
>
>