Re: IIGS for sale

["Jason Whorton" <jason@microxl.com>]

Hello.  Thank you for your interest in my "gold plated Pinto" theory.
WARNING:  To anyone who reads this, please note that I LOVE Apple II's and
currently own ten Apple II's and plan on hopping up my IIgs as time/money
allow.
     I will try to explain it as it applies to the Apple IIgs.  In short, if
you had an unlimited budget and went out and built the world's greatest IIgs
ever, it would still JUST be a IIgs.  No matter how much money you spend on
dream hardware (insert your favorites here), it would still be JUST a IIgs.
We all know what a IIgs CAN do, but we also know what a IIgs can NOT do,
bringing us to the main point of what the same amount of cash would buy if
spent on a used, modern computer (can I say clone PC?, looks around).
    The gold plated Pinto is basically the same thing, except no matter what
you do to a Pinto (my parents used to own one, so I speak from experience),
it's still JUST a Pinto.  Even gold plating it won't change it from what it
really is, an old, slow, loved by some, collection of metal, plastic, and
glass that does what it was designed to do.
    Hopefully, this explains my theory.  I had to consider it back in '96
when I chose buying a used PC instead of spending the same amount of cash on
my IIe.

Thank you,
Jason Whorton
http://www.microxl.com/oldcomputers/main.html



sheercon@earthlink.net wrote in message <378DE5AD.50B18C5C@earthlink.net>...
>Jason Whorton wrote:
>
>> Please allow me to chime in with... for that price, one could buy a slow
>> Pentium PC with fairly modern everything that would be much more capable
of
>> doing modern computing tasks.  If it had rare hardware or software, it
might
>> be worth that, but I didn't see mention of it.  If anyone cares, ask me
>> about my theory on what I call "the gold plated Pinto".
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Jason Whorton
>> http://www.microxl.com/oldcomputers/main.html
>>
>> Supertimer wrote in message
>> <19990715003857.12882.00000517@ng-fr1.aol.com>...
>> >andsand@infoave.net (James + Susan Sandlin) wrote:
>> >
>> >>For sale: IIGS with a 3.5 and 5.25 and stylewriter printer and many,
many
>> >>different programs (too varied to mention) for $500.  Everything works
>> >>perfectly fine, I just no longer need an outdated computer.  Will even
pay
>> >>shipping fee.  Email back if interested.
>> >
>> >I'm not in the market for one, but just like to add that that price
would
>> >be much more reasonable if it also came with a monitor, a large hard
>> >drive (say 500MB or more), an upgraded accelerator (say at least
>> >12.5Mhz) TWGS or ZipGS, and a large memory card (preferably 6MB
>> >or 8MB).  A good speed modem would also help.
>> >
>> >For example, a system with 300MB hard disk, monitor and drives,
>> >memory, and a 10Mhz TransWarp GS went for $350 recently.  Now
>> >if your system has much more software and better hardware than
>> >this, it would certainly be worth $500.  Sadly, it may be that you
>> >have to break up the system to get the full value.
>
>Tell us your gold plated Pinto theory...
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