Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu!ralphw From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: New IIgs PRESS RELEASE!!! Message-ID: <5969@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 24 Aug 89 18:02:17 GMT References: <8908220011.aa16705@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 37 In article <8908220011.aa16705@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes: >>I agree...When Apple first came out with the //gs, the II and II+ users for >>all intents and purposes were deserted... Agreed >Just like all those POOR IBM-PC owners whose original PC's can't >read 1.2 Mbyte 5.25 disks... It can with a new controller card >nor run OS/2... Add an 286 board(MicroSoft, Intel) >bought AT's who can't run Windows 3.0 and won't be able to run OS/2 2.0 >or the version of Presentation Manager containing 50 outline fonts!... You can even buy a '386 board for your original PC. >IBM doesn't offer those customers who made the PC what it is today an >easy upgrade path to the PS/2? Not IBM, but the thriving 3rd parties are all doing this. So for about $1K you can get '386 compatibility, and be able to run all the latest software. Apple's expansion card form factor seems mostly too small too allow this sort of whole-sale expansion, but they could have done a //GS-on-a-card-or-2 for existing ][+ and //e owners. The graphics hardware is already on the video overlay card, sound, ADB, and Appletalk could be on another, and slot 0 or the //e expansion slot could contain the 65c816, ROM, and SIMM sockets for for memory expansion. Low profile surface mount parts could be mounted on both sides of the card, but that's still a lot of slots, and you'd end pay more than what the motherboard upgrade costed. But, Apple didn't market them that way. Too bad. I may end up buying AE's 65c816 option along with the video overlay card, but without that ROM (and Ensonic sounds), it still won't quite be a GS. -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@{ius{3,2,1}.,}cs.cmu.edu Phone:(412) CMU-BUGS Amateur Packet Radio: N3FGW@W2XO, or c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA "You can do what you want with my computer, but leave me alone!8-)"