Re: APPLE IIgs

["Jeff Melcher" <jeff-melcher@worldnet.att.net>]

I purchased a new GS in July '87 and it was a WOZ and O1 ROM!




Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote in article
<6OCT199719321055@vax2.concordia.ca>...
> In article jeffr@nortel.ca writes...
> 
> >In article Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
> >>In article <01bccbd4$008431a0$092da3cd@bartons.mcn.net>,
> >>
> >>   Some collectors may like having the signature on the case, but if
> >>you want a system usable as more than a fast color //e, the ROM 00 GS
> >>needed serious help. 
> > 
> >Note that it is not necessarily a ROM 0 GS.  I once found a new GS being
> >sold at an Eaton's store in Toronto which was a ROM 1.  I doubt the
store
> >did a ROM switch themselves, since they're just a dept. store, not a
> >real computer shop.  But it's possible.
> 
>     Did this IIgs come out of a sealed box, or was it a demo system put
> out on display? The very first time I ever saw an Apple IIgs, was when
> I visited a Compucentre in Montreal. It too had a "Woz" signature case,
> but with the ROM version 01 firmware installed (at least that is what
> I remember, as I thought it was interesting that it displayed the ROM
> revision and a copyright notice -- something I had never before seen
> any Apple II model do before). I'm quite positive they had a ROM update 
> done to it, afterall, as an active demo machine you would want it 
> running the latest software.
> 
>     Also, I've seen several plain cover IIgs's with ROM 00 installed.
> Incidentally, the ROM 01 upgrade became available in August 1987. I'm
> pretty sure they stopped shipping "Woz" cover GSes by that point in
> time (anyone know the exact month they started shipping plain cover
> GSes? I would guess by early spring or summer of 1987).
> 
> Mitchell Spector
> spec@vax2.concordia.ca
>