I was alerted by an ARC colleague (thanks Jon) of a curious garage sale up at One Tree Hill. There i found, amongst other things, this quite early Apple IIGS. The keyboard is not a GS keyboard, but it is close enough.
This machine was built around the end of 1986, perhaps early 1987. It still had the original ROM 00. The updated ROM 01 was released in late 1987, and it was generally assumed that users would adopt the free ROM upgrade. For whatever reason, this unit missed the boat. I made up an adapter for a M27C1001 which did the job.
The battery was flat but had not leaked. I replaced it.
I added a Booti card for solid state storage and a Garrett 4MB memory card. I have configured slot 7 for Localtalk so i have popped the Booti card into slot 1 (local printer disabled).
I have loaded some pre-made disk images on to the Booti including GSOS V6. I added Appleworks and some games.
I also added Appletalk using the GSOS installer. It connected fine to an Macintosh SE/30 and even with a Macintosh G4 via a bridge.
