[comp.sys.apple] Plus rumors

dougm@lakesys.UUCP (Doug McIntyre) (12/22/88)

In article <8812200517.AA00162@crash.cts.com> pnet01!pnet101!pro-ascii!pro-newfrontier!jasonl@nosc.mil writes:
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>APPLE IIGS PLUS
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>Copyrigh 1988, Apple Computer, Inc.
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>The Apple IIGS Plus includes 2 MB of RAM and a space for three internal
>drives, built to house two 3.5" drives plus one 3.5" high-capacity storage
>device. The Apple IIGS Plus can be expanded to 16MB of RAM, due to a new
>variant of standard memory management systems.
> etc and etc...

	This is more dribble from people's wish fantasies.. It will never 
happen. Read it over, that is a lot of stuff for the price (especially
considering the RAM chip prices these days.)  I believe this is the one that
included the 65832 chip? that isn't to be in final production until 1990 or
so. (or at least 1989 very late).. Actually this was one of the better ones,
I've seen worse tech stuff, as they usually all fail, one way or another,
as supporting weird hardware that Apple would never do, or including 8M or so
for less than $1500, (come on the chips cost at least that)..

	Also someone said lets get back to old Apple prices... In Winter of
1981, an Apple II+ with 48k and one 5.25" disk drive went for the cheap 
price of $2,800. Compare that with the price of the GS, and what you get with
the ii+ at the time..
	Do you really want to go back to that price??



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REWING@TRINCC.BITNET (12/23/88)

He, I remember paying 2100 smackers in 1979 for my ][+, one floppy drive,
64K and *no* monitor.  What a bargain.  I think that my mother was going
to shoot me for selecting this set-up instead of the TRaSh-80 Model III
setup that would have gotten me a 64K system, two drives, monitor and
printer for the same price.  Turns out it was tre best two grand I ever
spent.

--Rick Ewing
  Apple Computer