Re: Building the Modern Apple IIGS

[Simon Williams <*email*@*luddite.ca*>]

On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 14:56:30 CST Marsha <menacechgo@aol.com> wrote:

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> [posted and mailed]
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> supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote in 
> 20030309042219.17109.00000114@mb-ms.aol.com:">news:20030309042219.17109.00000114@mb-ms.aol.com:
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> > Many people in this thread expressed bewilderment at
> > my project.  Others dug up PC bashing from a Mac
> > users' perspective.
> > 
> > Basically I am doing this for the same reason that car
> > fans like to hot-rod their cars.  Because they can and
> > it is fun.
> 
> <snip>
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> > I have also built a second IIGS using a
> > ROM 01 motherboard in a PC Tower case. 
> 
> Did you call that a retro-PC, or a GS in a PC Tower case?
> 
> I'm not confused by your project, just that it was called the "Mdern Apple 
> IIgs", when it is really a PC in the case of a GS.  
> 
> Putting an MP3 player in a Victrola doesn't make it a Modern Record Player, 
> it makes it a Victrola with an MP3 player in it.
> Distressing a cabinet to make it appear antique does not make it antique. 
> Hot-rodding the inside of GS case does not still make it a GS.