Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!miavx1!rlcollins From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: IIgs ROM revisions Message-ID: <4722.27ff0bd6@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> Date: 7 Apr 91 17:08:54 GMT References: <997.apple.a2.net@pro-nbs> <4651.27fb735d@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <1991Apr5.022112.16897@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <13349@ucrmath.ucr.edu> Lines: 27 In article <13349@ucrmath.ucr.edu>, rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes: > they could make an Apple II which outperforms a Mac IIfx or a NeXT Station. > And if they could, would you be willing to pay $10,000 for it? > I don't want Apple to build a high end apple iigs, why should they? > The Mac is a good high end machine with lots of support from Motorola for the > future (68040, 68050, etc.) which we'll never get from WDC or others. > What I would like to see is a *cheap* Apple IIgs. If they can sell a Mac > Classic with 2 megs for well under $1,000, why can't they sell a 1 meg > Apple iigs, monochrome (like the Classic) with floppy disk drive (like the > Classic) for under $500? > *** Randy Hyde Yea, why can't they? Yo can get an Amiga 500 with a meg of ram and floppy drive (no monitor though) for $500-$600 dollars, and you can get an Atari 1040 STe with a meg of Ram and floppy drive for $399. (Again no monitor) Add $150 for a mono monitor, and they both have Stereo sound, 4096 colors, GUI, CLI, the Amiga multitasks, the Atari has built in MIDI. Thats why I think that there is no market for the IIgs, it justs outprices itself out of everyones pocketbook. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ryan 'Gozar' Collins Question for MAC Users: rlcollins@miavx1.BITNET |||| Power Without What IS the format of a rc1dsanu@miamiu.BITNET / || \ The Price!! MAC HFS floppy disk? R.COLLINS1 on GEnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------