Re: Apple IIGS still rules!

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote
>
> 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.
>

Nice piece, Supertimer!  This part should be included in the faq, for people
like me who weren't around for the Golden Years.   I recently dragged out my
IIgs's to play with. I have a stack of them, some with Vulcans, some with
SCSI, some with TWGS's.  Though I have dozens of different old computers, it
is the IIgs's I play with the most.  Well, the Amigas and compact Macs are
pretty cool too.
-Paul