Re: Beige //gs

[KILPATRICK@Tank.CYBERphile.co.uk (Richard)]

In article <4rre3i$bkk@nyx10.cs.du.edu>, wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn) says:
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>In article <4rr9gv$jmb@natasha.rmii.com>,
>Laine Houghton <laine@rainbow.rmii.com> wrote:
>>Richard (KILPATRICK@Tank.CYBERphile.co.uk) wrote:
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>>: Does anybody have a BEIGE IIgs. These are pre-production. I am looking for
>>: one for my collection - they were issued to developers early 1986 - 
>>: Cirtech had one, but John threw it out!
>>
>>: Ragerds!
>>: Richard... 
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>>The //gs's I've seen before looked like MACS. Just last week I was roaming
>>a used computer store here in Colo. Spgs. They had a machine on the shelf
>>that looked just like my //e except it clearly had //gs where the //e is.
>>
>>I thought it an ugly beast compared to the modern //gs. Perhaps you've
>>shed some light on it.
>>
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>I think you managed to find a retrofit IIgs... the original IIgs motherboard
>could be installed in a //e case and use a //e power supply and keyboard.
>
>I know that my //e has a "custom" nameplate on it (where it used to say 
>"Apple //e" it now says "SYBERDEC", the name of the computer), so it's not
>impossible.
>
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>                                      --- SPQR (wbaguhn@nyx.net)
Sorry, the machine I referred to looks like a normal IIgs, but is same
colour as Apple //e. Maybe has matching keyboard. Open one up, is proper
ROM 00 firmware (i.e. Pre, 704 XXXXX serial #) and has a number of patch
wires as per Mark Twain. Except the memory expansion works on this
prototype...

Hope this clears things up :)
Richard, http://www.photonpub.co.uk/appleretro/