Re: Beige //gs

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <4rr9gv$jmb@natasha.rmii.com>,
Laine Houghton <laine@rainbow.rmii.com> wrote:
>Richard (KILPATRICK@Tank.CYBERphile.co.uk) wrote:
>
>: Does anybody have a BEIGE IIgs. These are pre-production. I am looking for
>: one for my collection - they were issued to developers early 1986 - 
>: Cirtech had one, but John threw it out!
>
>: Ragerds!
>: Richard... 
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>
>The //gs's I've seen before looked like MACS. Just last week I was roaming
>a used computer store here in Colo. Spgs. They had a machine on the shelf
>that looked just like my //e except it clearly had //gs where the //e is.
>
>I thought it an ugly beast compared to the modern //gs. Perhaps you've
>shed some light on it.
>
>
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I think you managed to find a retrofit IIgs... the original IIgs motherboard
could be installed in a //e case and use a //e power supply and keyboard.

I know that my //e has a "custom" nameplate on it (where it used to say 
"Apple //e" it now says "SYBERDEC", the name of the computer), so it's not
impossible.

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