Re: Which Apple II?

["Sheldon Simms" <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com>]

On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 23:03:36 +0000, Paul Grammens wrote:

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> "Jamie Kahn Genet" <jamiekg@e3.net.nz> wrote in message
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>> which model Apple II should I buy if I've a choice? An Apple IIe? A IIc,
>> what?
> 
> Well, of course you'll want them all.   ;-)
> But if I had to pick one to start with, I'd go with the IIgs.  You can run
> both 8 bit and GS/OS apps, and it will probably come with 3.5" and 5.25"
> drives.

For practical reasons, I agree with Paul, although it's my IIe that
is on a side desk and my IIgs that sits on the floor in the corner.
I just personally like the IIe better because I don't care for GS/OS
that much.

To me, Dos 3.3 and Prodos are classic microcomputing, and GS/OS is
a poor imitation of modern operating systems. These days I'm so
spoiled by 1600x1200x32 accelerated antialiased graphics, I can
hardly stand to look at the IIgs finder for more than 5 minutes.
Demos and games are still ok though.

The IIgs has a Zip-GS (currently at 12.5 Mhz) and a 4Mb RAM Card,
but the Hi-Speed SCSI is in the IIe, along with the 1Mb Ramworks III,
a Super Serial Card, a Novation AppleCat (currently displacing another
SSC), Apple Mouse Card, TimeMaster H.O., & Disk II Card. Anyone know
anything useful to put in slot 3 that won't conflict with the Ramworks?

I can imagine selling the IIgs someday, but not the IIe, never!

-Sheldon

P.S. On another topic, my IIe power supply died last week. I just
swapped it out with a spare I had, but I'd like to know what might
be wrong with it. When it was still in the IIe, the symptoms were
that you could turn on the computer, and after 2-5 minutes, the
power would simply cut off. If I tried switching it off and on
again, it wouldn't power up. If I switched it off and then waited
a while before switching it back on, then it would come up for the
above mentioned 2-5 minutes. This started happening suddenly about
a week ago. It's the first problem I've had with the computer at
all since it was bought in 1983.

P.P.S. Ok I did fry the main board once, but that was my fault.
The manual always said not to pull the cards out while the computer
was on, but 14-year-olds sometimes know better than manuals, or
so they think. And it worked the first time I tried it....