Apple IIgs in Apple II case?

From: Hotze <photze_at_batelco.com.bh>
Date: Tue May 26 21:13:52 1998

I seem to remember hearing (although I couldn't tell you where if my life
depended on it...) that Apple made it's earlier IIGS prototypes inside of
IIe cases.
    Ciao,

Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: D. Peschel <dpeschel_at_u.washington.edu>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 4:18 AM
Subject: Re: Apple IIgs in Apple II case?


>> It's not a conversion or anything, it's original from Apple. It looks
>> exactly like a IIe except for the model emblem and the back panel.
>
>As someone already pointed out, you have an official Apple product, a //e-
>to-//gs upgrade. When we got our family //e, I had fantasies about that
>upgrade, but we never got it (and I guess VERY few other people did
either).
>
>I seem to remember the list price as around $800. $864? Something like
that.
>
>Do you have the normal //e-size monitor? That would be an advantage over
the
>stock //gs. Do you also have the same //e keyboard? Has it been converted
to
>use ADB? I always liked the feel of the //e's keyboard better than the
//gs'
>little keyboard. But if the upgrade's keyboard isn't modular like the
regular
>//gs, that would be a disadvantage in some ways.
>
>-- Derek
Received on Tue May 26 1998 - 21:13:52 BST