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

A complete system consisting of the system unit, colour display, two 3.5" floppy drives, two 5.25" drives, matching keyboard and mouse. - iigs-01.jpg 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.
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. - iigs-02.jpg 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.
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. - iigs-03.jpg 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.
The cover removed from my ROM 03 unit as I got it.  On the far right is a 4MB memory expansion card. - iigs-04.jpg 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.
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. - iigs-05.jpg 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.
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. - iigs-06.jpg 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.
The Apple 1MB memory expansion card. - iigs-07.jpg iigs-07.jpg, 1280x1024, 373KB
The Apple 1MB memory expansion card.
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. - iigs-08.jpg 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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