I was born in 1982, and as far as I can remember we had an Apple IIgs
in our house. We had two 5.25" floppies, a 3.5" floppy, an Image Writer
II, and a stock "Woz" IIgs. It never had fancy RAM upgrades, or
anything. We just used it. Some of my favorite things to do with the
machine was to run "Dungeon Master" on it, or "The Last Ninja" or play
around with "Music Studio". I learned how to spell using "Speller Bee"
in fact I still clearly remember starting up Speller bee, and hearing
it say: "Speller Bee, by First Byte" in that weird computerized voice
that it did. We used the IIgs up-until about 1993. It was about that
time that we had migrated almost entirely onto macs. In 1994 we moved
to the San Francisco Bay Area, and the IIgs never got set up in the new
house. It just sat in the garage doing nothing. My last two years of
High School I had a teacher, Mr. Bright, He was an english teacher, who
had an affection for the old IIgs' he still requested stay in his
class. Mind you this was 1998-1999-2000, so the IIgs being used in a
classroom was not the most commonly seen thing. He was happy with the
systems, but wanted a system he could do work with at home. My parents,
being the nice people they are "gave" the whole kit and caboodle
software and all, to him for $20. Here it is, more than 5 years after
the fact, and I want my system back. after a long 10 year stint in the
dark side (win-tel) I've come home to Apple. I own numerous macintosh.
I have a 1.25GHz eMac, a 500MHz G3 B&W PowerMac, I have a PowerMac
6500/225 soon to be 300MHz! And I have three PowerBook 540c laptops and
I have the new fourth generation iPod 20GB. I'm thoroughly planted as a
full apple enthusiast, and plan on staying this way for quite possibly
the rest of my life. But like in the Movie, Citizen Kane, I wanted my
RoseBud. I wanted my old IIgs back, I want to play the game I grew up
on. So I went to eBay, where a man could find anything in the world,
and found a IIgs system. I'm usually a careful ebay purchaser, but I
was so caught up in the moment that I bid on the first system I came
across. This is what I won:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5110644419
What you see there is the extent of what I own. Although I have not
received it yet. I am now in the search for many other items that would
improve upon the system's performance. I downloaded from Apple GS/OS
6.0.1, and I've found my way to the fairway, where I downloaded a ton
of games that I remember as a youth. But I'm interested in expanding
memory, getting a 3.5" drive, maybe even getting a hard drive. I'd love
to hook it up to my mac net somehow. I have a couple mac's with apple
talk ports, so I think I may be able to hook it up that way. I'd love
to soupe it up too. So any help from you guys would be greatly
appreciated. I'm extremely novice when it comes to the IIgs. I just
remember putting in a disk, and playing the game! Maybe if you guys had
some hardware that was available for sale it would be cool too! Thanks
for the help you guys will undoubtedly give me in the near future!
- Jonathan
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