Re: On this day, 10 years ago...

[dabone@cdc.net (Mark D. Ormond)]

On 4 Feb 1998 19:50 -0500, spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
wrote:

>In article Matt Portune <mportune@telerama.com> writes...
>
>>I remember when I first discovered the GS:  I was playing sublogic's
>>Flight Simulator II on my ][+ with Mimco Stick (heh that thing rocked) and
>>my dad brought home the next issue of Incider (not Incider/A+).  On the
>>cover was the Woz, standing over a GS with the King-Tut graphic on it, and
>>I just about freaked.  I started reading about it, and remember the chill
>>that ran up my spine when I saw the section on sound.  While every other
>>machine was boasting 4-voice, 6-voice, and *maybe* 8-voice, this "GS"
>>thing came flying down from the heavens, bearing 15 voices of raw synth
>>power.  FIFTEEN!  After I finished the article, I remember muttering to
>>myself "This machine isn't human."  hehehe  I think I slept with that
>>issue on my pillow for a year.  :)
>
When I was in highschool, some computer store brought a IIgs out on
the field during a band comptetion. Caused quite a stir because
computers were not susposed to sound that GOOD.

Later,
dabone

(Btw, I didn't like it, I was a die hard Commie user at the time.)