Re: Remember me? IIgs again!

["Bryan Parkoff" <bryan.nospam.parkoff@nospam.com>]

Richard,

    I am curious.  Why do you want to kill Bill Gates, the founder of
Microsoft?  He did hurt Steve Worniak's feeling when he kept Apple II users
down.

-- 
Bryan Parkoff
"Richard Kilpatrick" <oldcomputers@btconnect.com> wrote in message
news:caiodf$ele$1@titan.btinternet.com...
> Hi Guys!
>
> Blame Apple. Blame space. Blame collectors. I just got rid of my rarest
> Acorn in exchange for the Apple IIgs I miss so much.
>
> Some of the regulars may remember my old AppleRetrospective site. I had
> to drop it for personal reasons, and distributed my collection to
> various people... but now Apple have won me over first with an iBook,
> then the G5, and now I got an eMac, and three Newtons, and my 3 Mac
> Pluses and Classic, and Colour Classic with Mystic...
>
> But most of all, I now have a very basic IIgs...
>
> I know that  various people offered help earlier this year, but I lost
> my PC due to viruses and crap; the eMac is a replacement for it, as the
> G5 is very much employed with Logic and Shake in my studio.
>
> Now I have a basic UK IIgs, can any of the people who offered help still
do so?
>
> What I would like is a ROM 03 motherboard. Mr Gerber offered me help
> here but shipping for a 110V complete system was a PITA, an MB on it's
> own makes far more sense. I'm also going to need more memory, and a
> SCSI card (high speed is great, but anything will do).
>
> For those in the UK - I need a monitor!
>
> Ewen Wannop emailed me last time I popped my head in, but my PC's death
> lost the email.
>
> Please, get back in touch! I may not be collecting to the same degree;
> eBay has made it harder and more expensive in many ways and I don't see
> the need for info online in the same way as AppleRetro was (thanks,
> people that ripped it off, and thanks without the sarcasm for those who
> have made far better, impressive sites) - but I am really looking
> forward to having a IIgs again.
>
> Regards, and best wishes to everyone I knew,
> Richard
> -- 
> Accessing news on Mac due to PC expiry.
> Normal service may never be resumed.
> Death to Bill Gates!
> (Good thing I like Macs).
>