Re: Building the Modern Apple IIGS

[macvaya@remove.this.mindspring.com (Cali Ruchala)]

In article <20030309042219.17109.00000114@mb-ms.aol.com>,
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

/snip/


> I have built 4 different PCs of various designs with some
> that were modded quite extensively.  But what can
> beat the beauty of Apple's case design?


I'll see your GS case and raise you a dead NeXT cube
left by a pal who moved to Bosnia. (The story is good,
even if the comparison doesn't hold.)


/snip/

> For me, an nForce2 chipset motherboard, an AMD
> Athlon XP processor, and the IIGS case combines
> several of the things I am a fan of: high speed
> chipsets/motherboards, AMD processors, and the
> case designs of Apple.
> 
> Remember, it is true some IIGS users followed
> Apple and are now staunch Mac supporters.  But
> there are others like myself who felt burned by
> Apple and are now avid PC users.
> 
> Mac users can consider us the enemy as Mac
> users but I feel that when it comes to the IIGS, it
> does NOT matter if we are Mac or PC users.  As
> far as it comes to the IIGS, we are all IIGS fans.


I have no idea how to respond to this series
of consecutive non-sequitors (consequtors?)
I don't particularly care about what platform
you're using. Put OSX in it, it's still not
a GS. I really don't think it's a purist issue,
which is what you seem to be turning it into.
I notice you /snipped/ the metaphor:

you can have a horse - 
you can have a racecar - 
both have their high points - 
you cannot convince yourself that you're riding
in one or the other by pretending real hard.

... or maybe you can. Best of luck to you either
way, but I have no idea why you're professing
surprise when you talk about "building the modern
Apple IIGS" in a subject line, then admit in a
follow-up that it amounts to "stuff[ing] a PC 
into the IIGS case."

That's pretty much all I said, wasn't it?

It's just a case, mate. You can put handles on it and
call it an interactive lawnmower if you want.





Cali