Re: Reasons to buy a IIgs???

[John_L._Graham@adbbs.antioch.edu (John L. Graham)]

It depends on what floats your boat. I work with Macs and PCs all day, but
when I get home I can't wait to turn on my IIGS. It's just plain enjoyable.
For me, nothing beats it as an R&R machine. I've been using IIs long enough
(16 years) I've accumulated a LOT of stuff that can be hard to come by (I
rarely sold anything off) so starting from scratch could be a tad of a
challenge, but certainly doable. If'n it were me (and it's not) I'd get a
basic GS, add a 4 Mb RAM card, a small Focus Hardcard, a good amp and a set
of speakers, a scad of fun NDAs and INITs (I really like nifty desktops in
place of periwinkle blue and lot o'sounds) stir in a few games, paint
programs, music programs, Animasia 3D, languages (BASIC, Pascal, Modula-2,
3D-Logo, C, and an assembler) some books with neat programming ideas, and I'm
off!

Someone at work saw my GS sharing my desk with a Mac and asked "What ta heck
do you use that for?" I replied "Gee, how 'bout complex recursive
computations with logical branching?" ACtually it's my programmable
calculator on steroids, but that's nobody else's business. It's mine, it's
not PC-Compatible so no one else wants it, and I like it that way :)

Have fun!

John