Re: Did anyone make a IIgs clone?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Michael Black" <et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
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: Michael Pender (mpender@verizon.net) writes:
: > in article FTcQb.130084$I06.1124690@attbi_s01, Ernest at
: > leucoplast@seanet.NOSPAM.com wrote on 1/23/04 12:31 PM:
: >
: >> I was wondering if anyone ever made a clone of the
: Apple IIgs? I've never heard of one.
: > I guess that depends on how you feel about the Macintosh IIc.
: > - Mike
: >
: I've told this story before.  I got to a garage sale
: some years back, and someone had just grabbed onto an
: obviously Apple computer. I'd never seen that one before,
: so I got closer.  By that time, he'd popped open the lid,
: and said something like "there's no SIMMs".  I said, because
: I could now see the model, "Uh, it's an Apple IIGS, not a Mac".
: I said some other stuff, but it never got through to him.
: He had actually bought it, for $35, before I'd arrived.
: So he took his new "Mac" home.
:
: Oddly, I bumped into him a few days later, and he said
: "It's not a Mac".
:
: We get all those people coming in here with questions
: about their Mac, but in this case, the IIGS is sufficiently
: like some of the early Macs without built in monitors that
: the mistake is at least somewhat understandable (especially
: given the number of Macs released back then it was hard to
: keep track).
:   Michael

At our GoodWill store locally, there is a Macintosh, in a
tower case, and I often see people looking at it. Suddenly,
they will turn to one another and say, "It's not a PC."
I want to buy it, but I don't consider $90 for an aging
computer of any kind in a GoodWill to be a great find. So,
I wait, and wait, and one day it will either be gone, or
be a price I feel is right. "It's not a PC". Many people
don't even know what a Mac is around here, let alone an
Apple II. 8)

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