Post by: Xairbusdriver on July 20, 2015, 05:34:10 PM
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If you are still using your old Apple IIgs, then you may be relieved to know that after about 22 years...
Post by: RNKIII on July 20, 2015, 06:09:44 PM
There must be a use for these somewhere....aren't they about a mission to some planet?? I would gladly donate them for the control module...
Bob K. rnkiii
Post by: jchuzi on July 20, 2015, 08:24:53 PM
Post by: daryl66 on July 21, 2015, 12:33:35 AM
QUOTE(RNKIII @ Jul 20 2015, 06:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I have a IIgs in a closet somewhere hiding from the wife who wants to clear it out... Also has two 3.5" floppy drives and a 5 1/4". Plus one of those "boat-anchor" Apple 2 printers with 2 spare ribbons.
There must be a use for these somewhere....aren't they about a mission to some planet?? I would gladly donate them for the control module...
Bob K. rnkiii
There must be a use for these somewhere....aren't they about a mission to some planet?? I would gladly donate them for the control module...
Bob K. rnkiii
Bob: About 3 years ago I took on a project for a neighbor/friend that required a large effort to make some sense out of some writings that originated with a iigs. The long/short of it is I surprisingly found a very large community out there that still uses those things. I am currently in Alaska on my wife's MBP and all the info i have on that project resides on my MBP at home. If you are interested I will be glad to pass along whatever I have upon my return Thursday or Friday.
Daryl
Post by: RNKIII on July 21, 2015, 05:14:48 AM
Hope you're having a good time in AK....
Bob K. rnkiii
Post by: Xairbusdriver on July 21, 2015, 09:26:32 AM
The folks who developed the ][gs update are at <Call-A.P.P.L.E.>/ They've been around since the beginning of Apple. I was actually a subscriber to the monthly magazine and even visited their retail, members-only store in Seattle. I think that's the only magazine I ever put an add for a Grade Book program I wrote for my wife! I still have a copy of one of those magazines! "Apple Puget Sound Program Library Exchange is surely the oldest User Group still active!
Locally, we had a fellow who bought every Apple ][ he could find. He repaired them and resold them to folks who still used them to run machinery that no other platform bothered to write the apps they needed. He did the same for early Macs! A "dying market" takes on a whole new connotation? His garage was literally a museum of early Apple computers! Although he's moved back to Oklahoma, he's still on-line at <Operator Headgap> (the "headgap" part comes from his interest in automobiles).