Re: Apple IIgs and CNN

[Charles Richmond <richmond@ev1.net>]

Michael Black wrote:
> 
> Geo3 (grent@comcast.net) writes:
> > Hi,
> >  CNN on the cable news is showing kids using the Apple IIgs again
> > today. They showed the same clip Sat or Sunday. It was about how kids
> > stay in touch using Email,instant messasging or chat rooms after
> > schools. Must have thought these were IBMs rather than the colorful
> > Macs.
> > Take Care,
> >        George from Michigan
> 
> I've told this story before.
> 
> About 1995 or so, I arrived at a garage sale where someone was popping
> the top of what was clearly an Apple computer.  For some reason, he
> turns to me and says "no SIMMs".  I'd gotten closer, and could see that
> it was labelled a IIGS.  "It's not a Mac....", says I.  He was still stuck
> on the idea that it was a Mac, and nothing I could say would change his
> mind.  He'd already bought it, for $35.  Oddly enough, a few days later, I
> bumped into him, and by then he'd discovered it wasn't a Mac.
> 
> At first glance, and if you don't know about it, the IIGS does appear
> to be a Mac.  Especially when they did have all those Macs that had II
> in the model number.
> 
> Of course, another time I was at a Rotary Club garage sale, and spotted
> a Radio Shack Color Computer that I was interested in if the price was right.
> But someone was looking over at it, talking to one of the sellers.  From
> the motions, it was clear they were wondering about connecting that IBM
> type keyboard sitting next to it to the CoCo.
> 
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
 and I'm not sure about the former." 
                           -- Albert Einstein


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