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From: barresi@nymgr.dec.com
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Subject: //gs
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Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 19:35:43 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 17 19:35:43 1986
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Just picked up a copy on 'In Cider" which has the specs on the new 
Apple //GS [graphics/sound]

So here goes along with some comments...

Cpu-65C816 dualspeeds 1.0 and 2.8 MHZ (not much if any over the accelerators)

Standard Mem 256. Expandable to 8MeB(No Problems here!)

Rom 128k expandable to 1.125MB      

Graphics- Apple // compatible 40/80 column text Low hi and Double high
res graphics. Super Hi Res at 320x200 with 26 on screen colors and 640x200
with 64 on screen color (really shading so divide by 4)

Sound-Ensoniq 15 voice music/speech synthesizer chip with 64k of ram and
32 digital oscillators.

Expansion-SevenApple // compatible slots with one dedicated slot for memory,
which by the way is a full 24 bits.

Ports-2 serial;Game/Joystick;Disk Drive (3 1/2 & 51/4);RGB color;Composite;
Apple Desktop bus for keyboard and mouse;Headphone/speaker.

It also has alot of VLSI stuff and the so called MEGA // chip, which is
a //e with out th cpu and i/o stuff.Obviously theres alot more to it than
what I just wrote so buy a copy of Octobers 'In Cider'.

Personallyni'm not really that impressed. I mean they took alot from the MAC
with all the windows/icons and stuff. I would of thought that the graphics
would be alot bette and wit should've had a SCSi port built in. While reading
the aricle I just felt that they just designed it with the what was already
done with the //e [by 3rd parties]just put it all in a neater package I''ll
wait till I see a REAL one before deciding to go IBM or not

Joe Craparotta