Rig of the Day: Apple II GS, autographed by Woz

Snagged one of these at a school auction along with a later model for about a buck each. The first ones had an easter egg hidden at boot where oyu could get it to display a message and developer credits. the later ones had an audio clip of the dev team saying 'apple' on it as well (erm, eeggs.com says it's sound clip is 'Apple II', guess it's been a while since I messed with the machines), which was a nice little thing to find when tinkering with them.

i am going to have to put my woz edition dual booting mac book pro on here....

I had one of these, it is my favorite mac memory, We had a WOZ IIGS and my dad bought everythign you that you could buy for it, even the modem which served almost no use for us but we had it. It had a brilliat monitor and a neat add on that placed a 2.5in floppy and 2.5in floppy holder and and surgeprotector all in between the system and the monitor. I used the computer up until 1995 to type most of my papers on. It came with no harddrive , but we had the boosted ram (I can't remember what it was but it was the delux version) To get to the desktop you had to hotswap and load the OS everytime, it was 4 or 5 disk if I remember. However most software for macs back then just ran by sticking them in and turning the computer on. I didn't know what an operating system really was till windows 95. I still remember the day my dad bought the computer, at a store in williamsburg virignia. It was a sad day when we got gave the comptuer to a local elemenetary school. It still worked great.

It is one of the first 40,000 Limited Edition ones with his signature printed on and not signed personally.

Yeah, my Woz IIgs is sitting in my garage in the original box, flanked by its Apple 12" Color Monitor and ImageWriter II.

Man, BeagleWrite. I miss that program.

Saw one in peson when they were originally on sale. ;-)

Yeah, my brother has one of these "Woz" IIGSs.

Actually, the first 40,000 II GS's built were called Woz limited editions and featured his signature. This is probably one of those, and as such, unfortunately, is not exactly a one off item.