Hi everyone. I just recently purchased a IIgs in the UK, which are rare to find outside the US. I paid £500 for the IIgs, a 17" flat screen monitor with adapter, Floppy EMU, 4 floppy drives (two 3.5" ones and two 5.25" ones), four new boxes of 5.25" disks, A CFFA 3000 hdd emulator and several software disks. I think I did pretty well but I just wanted someone else's opinion.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of the Apple IIGS. Did you get a ROM 1 or a ROM 3? Either way you got a really good deal on tha GS setup, in fact I'd say you got a steal. The price you paid translates to $640 stateside. With everything you got with it, the flat screen, the Floppy EMU, the 4 drives, the boxes of new dsks, some software and the CFFA, anyone over here would kill for that kind of deal. You'll be able to run the majority of original apple II software plus GS specific software.
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Hi there!
It's a ROM 1 from 1989, so it's compatible with the majority of IIgs stuff, I'm having fun playing with the floppy emu because the person I got it from already had it loaded with software and games. I had wanted a IIgs since I used one at school around age 10 and I'm 40 now so it took a long while to come to fruition lol. I thought I had done pretty well with it, what clinched it for me was it being in the UK and already ready for 220V because every other one I saw were US imports so I am pleased with it. I forgot, it had also been upgraded to 2MB RAM, and came with a spare RAM card that I have in case of emergency. Thank you for confirming it was a good deal, my partner couldn't believe I'd pay that for one plus what it cost to go and collect it from London ( I'm in Nottingham).
That's the computer, I was considering it, even chat with the seller but finally ignored the ad because I am not fan of exactly those relatively newly designed peripherals, neither I am going to "kill anyone" for the CFFA3000. Of course this is my point of view and I already have several GSes...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/135116893071
Had it been such a deal the listing wouldn't have stayed active for about a month.