Re: The Last IIgs Users on Earth [Was Re: Marinetti Applications]

["Terry & Utahna" <tolsen64@hotmail.com>]

I still use my GS.  Running a bbs on it.  Telnet in and check it out...

telnet:boycot.no-ip.com
http://boycot.no-ip.com/boycotbbs/telnet

Terry

"Joe Kohn" <joko@NoMoreSpam.net.invalid> wrote in message
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> Iosaef the Irascable! <rummikub32@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >      You know, I feel exactly the same way most of the time.  Outside
> > of reading CSA2 and getting the occasional bemused chuckle from the
> > roomie, I'm the only one I know who still cares enough to keep his
> > IIgs and enhanced IIe operational, much less sitting next to the PC he
> > reads the newsgroup with.
>
> In recent years, old friends of mine have "felt sorry for me" (their
> words, not mine) because I was still using an Apple IIGS, and actually
> gave me complete Mac and PC systems. The Mac was a $20 one from a garage
> sale, and the PC was a result of dumpster diving.
>
> But, I hardly ever use them, and I'm typing this message on the same IIGS
> that was used to post to csa2 10-12 years ago. The modem is newer than the
> IIGS...it's a speedy 14.4 and I'm still content with it.
>
> So, like I said yesterday, sometimes I get the feeling that I'm the last
> person on earth to still be using a IIGS in 2003. Of the 3 different
> systems, the IIGS is the only one that's turned on daily. I might go
> months and months without even looking at the Mac or PC.
>
> Or, to word it another way...Resistance is not futile ;-)
>
> I love my IIGS just as much today as when I first dragged it home, brand
> new, gulp, 15 years ago. I guess you could say that I didn't think that
> "Apple II Forever" was just some clever marketing ploy ;-)
>
> Seriously though, I was just in touch recently with a guy who was written
> about in the old NAUG Journal. At the time, Jack Friedman was running the
> largest watch repair company in the US. Using AppleWorks Classic on a
> IIGS. For a while, he switched to Bernie, but when I talked with him just
> 2-3 weeks ago, he was proud that he'd gotten rid of the Macs and gone back
> to a real IIGS.
>
> We joked about being the last 2; the last of our kind. Well, not entirely,
> as he's the only one still running a successful business with his IIGS ;-)
>
> He'd just gotten some super-duper new LaserJet and needed a reminder about
> how to get it all working with AppleWorks on his IIGS. It was a real
> pleasure to tell him. Years ago, I got those types of questions routinely,
> but since no one (or so it seems) uses real IIGS hardware anymore...
> well...my IIGS question-answering skills are getting a little rusty.
>
> Joe Kohn
> http://users.foxvalley.net/~joko
>
> What along, strange trip it's been!
>