Re: ROM 01 Superiority

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

"Rubywand" <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message
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>      A pro-ROM-01 factor which often gets ignored is 'standardization'.
The
> ROM 3 was released in 1989, near the end of the 'Computer Wars' when most
new
> computer shoppers were becoming convinced that a PC was the ony way to go.

Hmm.  I moved from a Tandy Color Computer III to a Mac Plus.  I Hated
Windows 2.0 which really reeked.  Nothing ran on it and the only viable
Windowed OS was the Mac Finder.  My PC friends couldn't understand
why I would get a Mac versus a PC.

>      Meanwhile, many of the Apple II users who remained had decided that
if
> the promised ROM 3 were anything short of a major upgrade, they were 'out
of
> here' and off to PC-ville. (Hardly anyone, except some magazine editors,
> talked about going to a Mac.)  The ROM 3 proved to be a very minor
upgrade;
> and, users deserted in droves.

Why would GS/OS users leave the Apple world and go PC?  That would
have been a backwards step since a decent version of Windows wouldn't
be available until 1991 (Win 3.1) and then it was a far cry from the Finder.

>      In purely hardware terms, the ROM 3 is a better computer; however,
> relatively few were produced and sold. Consequently, the ROM-01 remained
the
> 'reference IIgs'-- i.e. the IIgs new software and hardware _had_ to work
on.
> Dealing with some extra compatibility problems is the price one must
expect
> to pay for being a ROM 3 user.

Any idea how many were produced versus ROM 1's?  I have seen
quite a few ROM 3's used and my first one I found was a ROM 3.


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