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Re: Happy 13th Birthday to the Apple IIgs
Apple IIGS introduced: January 1986
Apple IIGS terminated: mid-1993
Try this web page, it has pictures from the first Apple II & all the
macintosh computers.
http://www.apple-history.com]---Apple History Page
http://www.apple-history.com/aIIgs.html}--Apple IIGS
http://www.apple-history.com/gallery.html ]---Picture Gallery of Apple
Computers
Daniel
The Apple History site and all of its contents are � Copyright 1996-99
Glen Sanford.
Information is brought to you by Glen Sanford:
>The Apple IIgs
>
> Codename: Cortland, Phoenix, Rambo,
> Gumby
> CPU: Western Design Center 65SC816
> speed: 2.8 Mhz
> FPU: none
> motherboard RAM: 256 k
> maximum RAM: 8 MB
> number of sockets: n/a
> minimum speed: n/a
> ROM: 128 k - 1 MB
> L1 cache: n/a
> L2 cache: n/a
> data path: 16 bit
> bus speed: 2.8 Mhz
> slots: 7 proprietary (compatible w/Apple II)
> SCSI: available via expansion card
> Serial Ports: 2
> ADB: 1
> Floppy: 5.25" Disk ][ or 3.5" Sony 800k, via floppy port
> HD: supported
> Display: 2 bit color at 640x200, 8 bit color at 320x200
> IIe enhanced: 80 column
> Sound Output: built in speaker
> power: ??
> introduced: January 1986
> terminated: mid-1993
>
> The last member of the Apple II line, The Apple IIgs was
> a also the most powerful. Announced in September 1986,
> the IIgs was built around a Western Design Center 65C816
> processor running at either 2.8 or 1 Mhz. It included
> expanded graphics and sound functions, and was initially
> offered with 256k of RAM, expandable to 8 MB. The IIgs
> also offered 128k of ROM, expandable to 1 MB. The IIgs
> shipped with a Mac-like interface and a IIgs-specific
> OS, and introduced the Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) port. (It
> also ran most other Apple II software.) The IIgs was
> later offered with 1 MB of RAM, and 256k of ROM. It
> could also hold a SCSI adapter card, and was
> discontinued in December of 1992. Many 3rd party
> refinements and expansions have been offered for the
> Apple IIgs (including processor upgrades up to 18 Mhz),
> and there is still a fairly large installed base.
In article <37DF8244.8550552A@singnet.com.sg>,
Lim <ltchean@singnet.com.sg> wrote:
> Hi, cannot access the site.
>
> btw, is IIGS born in 16th September 1986?
>
> Thye Chean
> Apple II Forever!
>
> Macprober wrote:
> >
> > To celebrate the Apple IIgs 13th Birthday this month, GS WorldView is
> > presenting
> > this personal GIF scans set of the IIgs motherboard schematic diagrams in our
> > September, 1999 Issue.
> >
> > See this URL:
> >
> > <http://www.grin.net/~cturley/gsezine/GS.WorldView/******Sept99/IIgs.Mothe
> > rboard.Schematics/>
> >
> > Graphic File Information
> >
> > File Format: GIF 87a
> > Color Palette: B/W (1 Bit)
> > Resolution: 72x72dpi
> > Compression: 1:5 or 1:7
> >
> > The IIgs motherboard schematic diagrams set is presented in eight parts. Some
> > of
> > the eight parts were scanned as a single graphic GIF file and some were scanned
> > as two graphic GIF files to allow viewing of the entire IIgs motherboard
> > schematic diagram for each part.
> >
> > Reference examples: PART1.GIF
> > PART3.A.GIF and PART3.B.GIF
> >
> >
> > Each GIF file is Copyright �1999 by MacProber and GS WorldView. They may be
> > used
> > by anybody for their needs without restrictions. You may notice some of the GIF
> > files are at a bit of an angle. Sorry, this was the way the scan worked to
> > compensate for the large size of each part when done in two GIF scans.
> >
> > These GIF files should be able to present the entire IIgs motherboard schematic
> > diagrams with enough clarity and detail to allow you to use them with any of
> > the GIF view programs for the Apple IIgs and other Apple II models. They can of
> > course, be viewed with any other computer platform also.
> >
> > A Very Happy 13th Birthday to the Apple IIgs.
> >
> > That's All Folks !
> >
> > MacProber
> > GS WorldView Editor
>
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