Re: News items from a2central.com --> Apple IIx?

[Joe Kohn <joko@NoMoreSpam.net.invalid>]

 >Forgive my incompetence, but I seem to recall the IIGS being code-named
 >as 'IIx' before it was launched, at least in magazines like "Creative
 >Computing"
 
Why does this rumor persist, even after an Apple IIx was located and shown
a few years ago at KansasFest? The code name for the IIGS was Cortland. 
 
The Apple IIx, code named both Brooklyn Bridge and Golden Gate, was to be
a dual processor 6502/68000 that would run Apple II software and Unix. 
 
All of one prototype has been discovered, but sadly, it was missing the
68000 co-processor.
 
Maybe if you visited Tony Diaz's web site (I think it's www.a2.org), you
can see a picture of the IIx motherboard.
 
Joe Kohn
http://users.foxvalley.net/~joko



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