Re: Yay! Finally got myself a IIgs!

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

Sean Fahey (a2fan@hotmail.com) writes:
> Mike Spurgeon wrote:
> 
>> A few years ago I found a NIB GS, drives, Imagewriter II in a thrift 
>> store for $80.
> 
> Cool - I like finding stuff like that too. Sometimes, its an effort to 
> maintain the poker face and say "...but this isn't a Mac, it's an Apple 
> II -- much older than a Mac, and obsolete." which is all true, but then 
> walk out with a GS that has a HS SCSI or an accelerator for pizza money.
> 
I've told this story before.  Around 1995 or so, I arrived at a garage
sale to find someone looking over an exotic looking Apple computer.  For
some reason, he turns to me and says "there's no SIMMs".  I look closer,
and it's the first IIGS I ever saw.  I say something about how it's not
a Mac, by that point it was clear he thought he'd grabbed a Macintosh (and
given the case, one of the more exotic ones) for thirty dollars.  I bumped
into him a few weeks later, and by then he'd figured it out, though I'm
sure I'd said something when he was looking it over.

It was long enough ago that Macintoshes weren't showing up that much
at garage sales, at least not much in the way of non Compact Macs, so if
you didn't know, it would seem to be quite the find.  Even as a IIGS, I
think the only other time I saw one at a garage sale or rummage sale was
when I bought mine at a school sale for five dollars, a couple of years later.

  Michael

> I'm up 2 NIB GS (both ROM 03), I had 3 but started using one. I also 
> have 3 NIB //c Plus (with NIB monitors, stands and Imagewriters), 2 NIB 
> platinum //e and numerous cards and peripherals still in shink wrap. 
> It's good to have spares.