Re: eBay madness - IIgs "gumby" or not? I say not.

[Warren Ernst <wernst@gmail.com>]

On Jun 3, 10:41 pm, Silicon Sam <Silicon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>   I used to have 2 IIgs prototypes.  I think I still have one, as I
> remember only selling 1 of them on eBay maybe 8 years ago.
>
>   They have blue colored motherboards, and yellows markings.  As
> opposed to white lettering on green.  The part number on the
> motherboards are 6XX-XXXX-XX.  Both were in //e cases, one had a brown
> covered case, one in plain aluminum.  No case stickers at all, but one
> had Product Test in sharpie on the back plastic, in the corner.  There
> was a sticker with a date on the board, all I can remember was it was
> dated early '86 I believe.  The ROM was missing on both of them
> unfortunately.
>
>   I should have some pics of the one I sold, but they are back home.

Ditto.

Every pre-release IIGS we had at the Beagle Building was in a //e
case, and as I recall, powered with a //e power supply. To me, this
means that every real prototype motherboard should have the //e
connections soldered on.

For a while, an early-release //c+ was my daily work machine. It
lacked the texturing of the finished products, and was totally smooth
and almost white. This jives with other recollections too.

As such, my vote as to this system being a prototype is "No."

-Warr