Apple IIgs
In September 2009 I started to downsize this collection to a few items and then archived this section to its own subdomain at the start of October 2011. Remaining items sold off in mid 2024.
Introduced in September 1986 the Apple IIgs was the last member of the Apple
II family. However upon the it could be considered to be closer to a
Macintosh than an Apple II as it incorporated many of the new features that
were being developed at the time such as the snow white styling and the move to
a graphical user interface.
This system
Back in 1988 my parents bought our first computer: a ROM 01 with 1mb extra
RAM, two 3.5" drives, one 5.25" drive and an ImageWriter II
printer. I still have this system but it has been augmented by two more ROM
01's and a ROM 03 obtained through a mixture of hard rubbish collections and
ebay.
Images
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iigs-01.jpg, 1280x1024, 152KB |
| A complete system consisting of the system unit, colour display, two 3.5"
floppy drives, two 5.25" drives, matching keyboard and mouse.
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iigs-02.jpg, 1024x768, 78KB |
| The front of the system unit is very simple featuring a power indicator on the
right side and the apple logo and 'Apple IIgs' text on the left.
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iigs-03.jpg, 1024x768, 133KB |
| The cover removed from a ROM 01 unit where the only upgrade has been the
addition of the 1MB memory expansion card which can be seen on the right hand
side.
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iigs-04.jpg, 1280x1024, 246KB |
| The cover removed from my ROM 03 unit as I got it. On the far right is a 4MB
memory expansion card.
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iigs-05.jpg, 1024x768, 168KB |
| A side on view of the ROM 03 unit with the memory expansion removed to show the
Doctor Design card which I think just provides a headset socket.
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iigs-06.jpg, 1280x1024, 208KB |
| The rear of the system unit features headphone, two serial, joystick, floppy
drive, colour display, monochrome display and apple desktop bus ports across
the bottom. There are a variety of cutouts available for various expansion
cards.
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iigs-07.jpg, 1280x1024, 373KB |
| The Apple 1MB memory expansion card.
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iigs-08.jpg, 1280x1024, 443KB |
| A third party memory expansion card featuring 4MB of memory. I understand that
the remaining sockets can be populated for a total of 8MB of memory.
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