IIgs The Future (opens in new tab)

During the tumultuous era where Apple cast the Apple II aside in favour of the Macintosh, they also threw out a really special little computer: the Apple IIgs. It combined the Apple II’s anything-goes accessibility with 16-bit performance and FrogDesign’s good looks. I’d never had one before, but have started to get interested in them recently. Let’s see what it takes to get this slightly battered example running.