Re: new Apple announcement: Apple IIgs is obsolete (again)

[Frank Carney <frankc@cyberhighway.net>]

Roger Johnstone wrote:

> I came across an interesting press release today. It's from a company which
> sells used computers and parts. The release includes a list from Apple of
> computers which are now classed by them as vintage or obsolete. The Apple
> IIgs was declared obsolete by Apple on 10 January 2000. I expect everyone
> here will immediately stop using their GS's ;-)
>
> http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000114/ma_pre_own_1.html
>
> Roger Johnstone
> Invercargill
> New Zealand
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> Press any key to continue or any other key to quit...

Oh man, now all my friends are gonna laugh at me...

Does Apple classify the Mac SE as obsolete?  I just got mine booting from a
Zip drive!

It seems to me that the IIgs hardware, other than the processor and the SCSI
interface, is far superior to the Mac SE.  The IIgs has better sound, color, a
similar windowing system, backward compatibility, accelerators and slots!  The
SE can only take 4M of RAM without processor expansion and my IIgs has 4M and
can take 8M.  You can get hardrives, Super drives, DOS compatibility.  It
seems to me that Apple threw a whole lot away when they discontinued the Apple
II line.  Doh!  Anyway, that is my ramble...

P.S. I just setup my SE for nastalgia sake and I don't know what to do with
it.  Same goes for the IIgs, oh well.  BTW, I do not envy anyone setting up an
SE without any disks.  I was forced to beg, borrow and steal in order to get
SSW 7.0.1 on it.