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Re: Happy Birthday Apple IIGS!
"Mitchell Spector" <mitch2gs@hotmail.com> wrote in message t9aqf4t0pnbijv93s7llskn51cmtrep1ta@4ax.com">news:t9aqf4t0pnbijv93s7llskn51cmtrep1ta@4ax.com... 
   The Amiga 1000/500 could be upgraded to support these things, but
in a pretty inelegant and clumsy way. They had to plug into the external
expansion port, and in a "train car" fashion, one device beside the other.
Even something as simple as memory expansion beyond the built-in 512K
RAM had to be added externally! Compare that to the IIGS, everything
could be internally added save for floppy drives and CD-ROM.
The 2000 had slots, but yes HD's had to be mounted externally on the 1thou. I did have an internal memory upgrade and accelerator card though so not quite correct.... 


   My brother (twice!) blew one of the custom chipsets in his Amiga 500
because he accidentally bumped and knocked loose something hooked
into the external expansion port. And looking inside the Amiga when I've
repaired a few, I remember Commodore's manufacturing and quality
control was fairly sub par which didn't help.


well maybe but my A1000 was made in japan and still works....




Amiga came out in '85 waaaay before the GS


   The original Amiga came before, but not way before. The A1000 was
released July 1985, the Apple IIGS September 1986 (and while that's
only one year later, it doe in fact pre-date the Amiga 500 and 2000
by four months; those were the first usable Amiga's). :)


I'm sorry but a psuedo 8/16 bit machine was no match for the Amiga...


   I'll admit, the Amiga had an edge (that's putting it lightly!) for
animation and multitasking, but otherwise there was much the
Apple IIGS had over it IMHO.
They squeezed as much as they could from the 70's technology in the GS. I'm not knocking it, in it's day it was an excellent system...... 



   The IIGS Finder and GUI in general made Workbench look
a child's toy by comparison. The GS's Ensoniq synthesizer ran
circles around the 4-voice DAC in the Amiga. And its internal
expansion, via its 7 general purpose expansion slots, made it
a more opened and accessible system. It was a small thing,
but I also preferred the fact the Apple used a two (or three)
button analog joystick over the one button digital stick!
it's a moot point for me - I'm in the UK and the IIGS never even registered sales wise..(though I did have a IIe in the early 80's...) If you required expansion and more power there was the 2000 and 3000....As a decent all rounder there was not much to touch the amiga at the time for the price....