Re: Apple IIgs in IIe case?

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Quadrajet1 <quadrajet1@aol.com> wrote:
:>I'd rate it as a lot rarer than a Woz IIgs, at least around here. I have
:>half a
:>dozen
:>of the Woz IIgs and have run across several hundred of them over the years.
:>However I've only ever seen 3 of the upgraded IIe ever. Maybe things are
:>diferent in other areas though.

:    Heck, me too.  I have seen maybe 100 of the Woz machines (I think I
: currently own 4-5 of them now) and I have only seen maybe 2 of the upgraded
: //e's.  Like I said in my earlier post, they didn't ship them for the longest
: time because of production problems, and some of those waiting just went ahead
: and bought a IIgs.  They could only make so many IIgs motherboards at a time,
: and they went to making real IIgs's, and the //e upgrade kits had to take a
: back seat to them.

I built one out of parts long after the fact. The local dealer had a "garage
sale" to get rid of old stuff. Included was a complete upgrade kit minus
logic board. Guess they scavenged it for a repair or something. I paid the
whole dollar they wanted for the kit, pulled a board and //e case out of
the spare parts horde, and put it together. That was especially cool since
the kit had the manual and stickers and another original copy of system 1.1,
just like my signature edition came with in early '87.

I also turned up a Chinook 4 mb memory card for it, which was a must have 
since it's //e case friendly like Apple's 1 mb card. It also has a VOC, a
SuperSonic sound card with digitizer, and a rev C SCSI card.
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