Re: Apple IIgs - 10 anniversary edition

[powergs@macgui.com (Sam Latella)]

Thanks to everyone for the feed back on the 10th anniversay edition IIgs...
Vaporware? :)

Sam

Michael Black wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2011, Sam Latella wrote:
> 
>> Just curious if this is true or not  -  Apple IIgs 10 anniversay edition
>> with orginal boxes
>>
>> Was there an actual 10th anniversary of the IIgs?  or was this the Apple
>> II?
>> And if so what would something like this be worth with original boxes?
>>
>> Looking to expand my collection of Apple II related stuff.
>>
>> Thanks, for any assistance.
>>
> I don't remember anything like that.
> 
> There was a 20th anniversary Macintosh, which is sort of a mangling since 
> it's a Macintosh rather than an Apple II, but was released to mark the 
> 20th anniversary of the company, though it came out in 1997 so maybe it 
> really represents the 20th anniversary of the Apple II rather than start 
> of the company with the Apple I.  Companies often want to rewrite history,

> so if Apple wanted to pretend nothing happened before the Mac, they would 
> rather issue a computer for the 20th anniversary of the company rather 
> than the 20th anniversary of their really successful product.
> 
>    Michael
>