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From: god3@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Peter Godwin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: About the //e upgrade to //GS
Message-ID: <686@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Oct-86 22:37:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: sphinx.686
Posted: Sun Oct  5 22:37:29 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 7-Oct-86 20:46:59 EDT
References: <673@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <1527@k.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: god3@sphinx.UUCP (Peter Godwin)
Organization: Univ. of Chicago Computation Center
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Keywords: //gs, //e upgrade

The most concrete information I have come across about the upgrade
follows:

o  retail price:  $499

o  Apple hasn't said whether or not the upgrade includes a mouse.

o  The IIgs has NO slot compatible with the //e auxiliary slot.
   Therefore, Ramworks, MultiRam, and other memory expansion cards
   which plug into the aux. slot on a //e will not work in an upgraded
   //e  --> IIgs. ,  only slot based cards will work (Apple's for instance).

o  Your current communication soft/hardware setup may not work properly
   without modification.  This goes for modems hooked up via serial ports.

o  The Apple //c WILL NOT BE upgradable with this method.

o  Various multifunction cards which work on //e's may not work properly
   on a IIgs (call the company and ask if concerned).

o  The RGB monitor you may already have for your //e may not work
   on the IIgs since the IIgs creates an analog signal while
   a digital signal has been used on II's and //e's.

I myself am steadily planning to purchase the upgrade kit when it becomes
available through my school.  (I'm selling many peripherals which, with
the advent of the IIgs will become extrenuous.

The cost of the upgrade, however, is misleading.  The full power of the
IIgs will not be realized until a mouse (if not included), 3 1/2"
disk drive, and RGB monitor are purchased for the system.. and clearly
that represents a more substantial investment.


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