Re: Apple II Celebration (was: Re: FS: APPLE IIGS)

["Joseph E. Walsh" <ransom@connect.iconnect.net>]

On 16 Apr 1997, Paul Creager wrote:

> Joseph E. Walsh (ransom@connect.iconnect.net) wrote:
> : Then, I went whole hog and bought some nifty stuff to go in them.  A nice 
> : 100 MB HDD, an accellerator (8 Mhz!), and so on.  GraphicWriter III... 
> 
> Sounds like a good system (make sure you have at least 4 Megs of RAM).  

Hi Paul,

I received the HDD and the 4 MB board today (got 'em from MC Price 
Breakers - a very nice company; I've enjoyed dealing with them so far. 
They're very helpful), as well as the GS CPU, 3.5 FD, and mouse (from the 
gentleman who was selling his own system - the rest is following, 
hopefully in daily shipments).  So I stuck the SCSI card in slot 7 (is 
that the right thing to do?), twisted open one of the portholes (a GREAT 
idea!! I love those!) and stuck the connector through the case.  I also 
put the 4 MB card in there, closed it up and hooked up the hard drive.  
Now I just have to wait for the keyboard and monitor to arrive so I can 
actually use it. The anticipation is killing me! :)


> A well configured GS system is real nice to work on.  The Finder rocks!
> (especially compared to Windoze).  ;)

So far, I'm very impressed with the engineering.  It was very cleanly 
done, and is very user friendly. 

BTW, I was "this close" to buying a GS back when they came out.  At 
the time, I had the //c, and wanted to "trade up."  I went to the store, 
checked out the system (and made sure it ran my favorite //c programs - I 
was quite skeptical that it was truly compatable), and was thrilled with 
the windowing system (which was a novelty for me at the time). But I 
ultimately decided against it, mainly for financial reasons.  Ah, missed 
opportunities!

Oh, BTW2 - the system says "Rev Level: 03" - since I can't use it yet 
(and therefore can't see the ROM 0x come up on the screen), I assume that 
means I have a ROM 03 version.  

Finaly BTW - Did anyone else miss out because of being ignorant of all 
the neat options available for these computers??  I gave up on Apple ][ 
because I thought it was incapable of the things I wanted to do (run a 
BBS, use bitmapped fonts,etc.).  If only I'd known!  If only I'd 
subscribed to a good Apple ][ magazine!   My local stores had stopped 
carrying most of the Apple ][ stuff, so I erroneously assumed it was 
dead. Little did I know there was a huge variety of hardware and software 
available via mail order... :(


> : Apple II forever!
> 
> Amen!  Also, welcome to csa2.  

Thank you! :)


> Glad to see all the flames didn't scare you away.  :)

Point me to an interesting newsgroup that is flame-free, and I'll be 
quite surprised. :)  [No, this isn't an endorsement of flamage; I think 
heated argument is a waste of time.  Argument is good if you can learn 
something from it; but I find that nearly all flamewars have absolutely no 
exchange of useful information in them.  But, any subject that people are 
passionate about will have flamewars.  For better or worse, the most 
interesting subjects are those that people are passionate about.  I guess 
that falls under the heading of taking the good with the bad.]


-Joe
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