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From: kus3@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (robert  kusumoto)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: //gs
Message-ID: <670@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 17:13:43 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  1 17:13:43 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 3-Oct-86 11:07:40 EDT
Reply-To: kus3@sphinx.UUCP (Bob Kusumoto)
Organization: Univ. of Chicago Computation Center
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Well, I was lucky enough to see the brouchure that the Apple dealers
reieved the week before the //gs was released, from it, I can say that the 
computer is pretty impressive for the base $999 for the CPU, mouse and key-
board.

yes, its only 256K RAm, and 128K ROM, just make sure you get those 2 
separated, ok? and its upgradable to 16 meg, fully accessable without 
bank switching. from that meeting, I heard that it was 90% software compatat-
able with the //e emulation mode and all the hardware expect the aple ssc
and the applied engineering cards worked.  the ssc didn't work because of
a different communications chip that was in the gs, while the ae card were
some unknow reason at the time.  its too late now but if you went in 
early and reserved one of 7 //gs that each dealer recieved a week ago, you 
would be playing around with it now, otherwise, you will have to wait til
AFTER Christmas to receive this lovely product.

Hopefully, I will get that brochure back and reproduce it, in full for you all 
to enjoy

Bob