Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-tis!ptsfa!ihnp4!ihlpg!rre From: rre@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Velveteen Rabbit Corps) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Wanting an Apple //gs Message-ID: <3374@ihlpg.ATT.COM> Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 15:25:03 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.3374 Posted: Wed Jun 24 15:25:03 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jun-87 06:16:35 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 54 Keywords: Your Reactions, Gripes... I am currently the owner of an Apple //c, with an AppleColor monitor, one Mitac disc drive, and a Unidisk 3.5. "Desdamona" has been around since 1985, and has provided me great service. It may not have the bells and whistles like a C64, but I needed it mostly for text-processing, which it excels in. I have currently started getting interesting in programming Desdamona. I will not program in BASIC, not because I hate it, but because I want to apply something I've learned in school in my programming (foolish me). BASIC won't do that, and besides, on the //c, getting the most of its power can't be gotten from BASIC. So I got Apple Pascal 1.3, but even that won't let you tap all the power (no DHIRES, etc). Oh yes, Desdamona is hooked up to the Cricket //c, so I can get neat music and speech. But, I want more. Trust me, I did drool over the //gs for a while, just for its bells&whistles. That lasted a month, and I stopped that. I knew that I still hadn't tapped the potential of Desdamona (having only started programming in 6502 itself), and that wanting to pay that much just for bells&whistles was beyond my financial capability. I made the mistake of reading the Technical Introduction, and went gaga over the programming capabilities! Access to full GS power! Speed! I can program in a high-level language and keep some reasonable amount of speed! And that stupid mouse can actually be used from programming (I couldn't use it from 6502 or Pascal). Anyway, this lenghty introduction to my predicament leads me to my question: Does anyone out there in netland own or operate an Apple //gs? I am most curious in your reactions to it, and how you'd compare it to other systems like it (Atari ST, Amiga, Mac). I've looked into other systems and decided 1. I definitely like Color 2. I want expandability 3. I don't want to deal with the ST monitor problems if I don't have to 4. I want to go through a dealer (at least for the CPU). Please email to me your opinions concerning the matter, and if you can, how much you paid for your //gs systems, and what software and what you do on it. If things go the way I want it, by next summer I'll have Desdamona II... (...of course, if I saved for three years, I could just run out and get a Mac II for $5000...) Nah. Thanks in advance. The path is ihnp4!ihlpg!rre.