Re: Apple IIGS still rules!

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Supertimer" <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
20010922215122.14524.00000397@mb-fk.aol.com">news:20010922215122.14524.00000397@mb-fk.aol.com...
> The Apple IIGS is the best computer I've ever owned.  I
> have now basically moved over to the PC fully.  The
> years since Apple abandoned the IIGS has grown too
> long for the machine to accomplish all the computing
> tasks I need.  But having used the IIGS for many years,
> I will NEVER think that it is the useless trash that
> some folks who switched to Macs and PCs earlier
> seem to think.  I will NEVER think that it was only a
> toy computer that yet others think.
>
> Yet as many of us diehard IIGS users leave the Apple
> II world, the old misconceptions have returned.  The
> memory of what the IIGS was and is has dimmed.
> Like the forests that reclaimed ancient cities that had
> been abandoned, so too does the memory of the IIGS
> fade.
>
> Remember.  The Apple IIGS is not merely an 8-bit
> Apple II.  Remember.  The Apple IIGS had 32-channel
> wavetable sound at a time when the best PCs could
> do was the first 4-channel FM soundblasters and
> Macs couldn't do much better.  Remember.  The IIGS
> GUI ran much better than the first Windows up to
> Windows 3.1.  Remember.  The IIGS could run
> HyperCard, send and receive faxes, do page layout,
> turn out documents printed on ink-jet and laser
> printers whether Postscript or PCL (HP) that could
> not be distinguished from PC output.  All the work
> I did in college was done on an Apple IIGS and an
> ink-jet printer and the output of my system was
> good enough to use for resumes.
>
> Well, now I return some years later and it is much
> different in the newsgroup.  Instead of synthLAB
> and HyperCard IIGS, we talk about DOS 3.3 and
> emulation.  The IIGS side of the Apple II world is
> being forgotten.  Has any new user even seen what
> 3200 color graphics are?  Or does everyone think
> 16 colors per screen is all the IIGS can do?
>
> How sad.  Time marches on.

Well, of all the Apple II's I have, I think the Apple IIgs was a
nice computer for its day. Think of it. An Apple IIgs could do
color Finder before the Mac could. Hmm. Makes you think how
underpromoted the IIgs was. If they had continued the line, we
all might be using 32 bit Apple II's today.

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