Re: On this day, 10 years ago...

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article Matt Portune <mportune@telerama.com> writes...

>I remember when I first discovered the GS:  I was playing sublogic's
>Flight Simulator II on my ][+ with Mimco Stick (heh that thing rocked) and
>my dad brought home the next issue of Incider (not Incider/A+).  On the
>cover was the Woz, standing over a GS with the King-Tut graphic on it, and
>I just about freaked.  I started reading about it, and remember the chill
>that ran up my spine when I saw the section on sound.  While every other
>machine was boasting 4-voice, 6-voice, and *maybe* 8-voice, this "GS"
>thing came flying down from the heavens, bearing 15 voices of raw synth
>power.  FIFTEEN!  After I finished the article, I remember muttering to
>myself "This machine isn't human."  hehehe  I think I slept with that
>issue on my pillow for a year.  :)

    My first glance at the features the Apple IIgs offered, came not
from magazines, but from phamplets and booklets Apple dealers handed
out in stores. Heh, I remember reading them before going to bed too,
thinking how neat the computer and keyboard looked--or those nifty
pull-down menus, windows and icons I had played with on a Lisa and
Mac 128 years before, but couldn't dream of affording (the screen
shots were of MouseDesk and PaintWorks Plus, but they still looked
impressive to me at the time :). The wording in the advertisments
were done in such a way it sounded like they were describing dessert
menu choices from a fancy 5 star restaurant, seriously. :) It was
affective though, it was enough to convince me to buy.

    I still have all those today. In fact I was thinking of scanning
them in (I have access to a high-resolution color flatbed scanner)
and making them available to look at as JPEG images. I must have
about a dozen different ones, and they're kind of rare considering
Apple rarely advertised the Apple II--especially with glossy booklets
and phamplets. Most are about the IIGS, but I have some advertising
the Apple IIe and IIc.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca