Re: Apple IIGS still rules!

[obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2)]

Supertimer,

	I understand how you feel.  I feel the same way about my Apple //e.  With it's
faster startup time, I could run at one MHz and still beat a Pentium II on the
same phone line trying to race my 14,400 baud modem operating at 9600bps.  "Get
an Apple II!" I used to shout.

	The //e also used inkjet printers.  I never got around to hooking it up to a
laser, but it does work--especially nicely with PublishIt!4.  I still use
PublishIt! for staff newsletters.

	I did all of my master's work on the //e with the ImageWriter II printer--the
same printers that the University was still using in its lab of networked macs.
 With TimeOut SuperFonts, my resume copied nicely enough from the ImageWriter
II for the next couple of jobs, and I'd probably use it again.

	When it comes to GUIs, DeskTop1.1 is sweet!  A third generation of MouseDesk,
it was the 8-bit GUI that the IIgs was equiped with while waiting for its own
16-bit desktop.  I tried commissioning an update by an Australian programmer,
but never received a response.  Just as well, DeskTop allows good maintainance
of my multi-partitioned hard drives.

	Tutor-Tech gives me hypermedia on the hard drive.  Predating HyperCard and
HyperStudio by a couple of years, it's pull down menu are clean and fast. 
Lesson plans, maps, student choose-your-own-adventure�, garden design, game
making, electronic flash cards, tests, ...

	The simplicity of the //e is what I love.  It's FAST!!!  The IIgs always
seemed sluggish when running 16-bit programs.  Both computers occasionally
lock-up, as all computers do, but my IIGS takes about a minute to reboot to its
finder, while my //e takes about 1.5 seconds from it's hard drive!  The GS/OS
always seemed so much more delicate and easy to crash.  The //e is more like a
jeep or a Model T: you know that it will get you where you want to go.

	On the topic of being passed by with modern computers, I'm looking forward to
Hyperlink being ported to the 8-bit Apple IIs so I can shelve this *&^%$#@
iMac.

		][ Infinitum!
		Jay Edwards
		Apple II User for Life

Apple II:  Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

<<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?>>