Re: Apple IIgs Upgrade From Apple //e

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

Marsha <menacechgo@aol.com> wrote in message news:<Xns93138CA32BABAmenacechgoaolcom@206.141.192.32>...
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> "Panzers East" <NOSPAMpanzers.east@charter.net> wrote in
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> > What's the purpose of an Apple IIgs in an Apple //e case???  I'm
> > curious. 
> > 
> > By the way, the info says "looks like the real Apple //e case."  In
> > fact, it *is* a real Apple //e, is it not?  No "looking" about it.
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> When the IIgs was first released, Apple also had a IIgs upgrade kit for a 
> few hundred dollars less.  
> It had the motherboard, base backplate, and labeling.  It would have been 
> handy for shcools, etc. that wanted to retain the enclosed keyboard design 
> and/or had security cases that fit the //e case style.
> 
> Marsha

Or that used SystemSaver switches on all their //e machines, as my
school did.  The power switch was on the left of the system, and had a
red light on it.