Subject: Re: News items from a2central.com --> Apple IIx?
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In article <39a44d52_2@corp.newsfeeds.com>,
  Joe Kohn <joko@NoMoreSpam.net.invalid> wrote:
>  >Forgive my incompetence, but I seem to recall the IIGS being code-
named
>  >as 'IIx' before it was launched, at least in magazines
like "Creative
>  >Computing"
>
> Why does this rumor persist, even after an Apple IIx was located and
shown
> a few years ago at KansasFest? The code name for the IIGS was
Cortland.
>
> The Apple IIx, code named both Brooklyn Bridge and Golden Gate, was
to be
> a dual processor 6502/68000 that would run Apple II software and
Unix.
>
> All of one prototype has been discovered, but sadly, it was missing
the
> 68000 co-processor.
>
> Maybe if you visited Tony Diaz's web site (I think it's www.a2.org),
you
> can see a picture of the IIx motherboard.
>
> Joe Kohn
> http://users.foxvalley.net/~joko

And, deth@idx.com.au replied:
<<Maybe the rumour persists cause Woz actually wrote that the IIx was the
precursor to the IIgs. In his happy 20th birthday letter to the Apple ][ 
comunity he wrote

"The Apple IIx, early precursor of the Apple II GS, was killed because
we didn't expect to sell 20,000 units per month. Thankfully, the GS was
revived by a small group who truly believed in it."

I would have thought Woz would be right.

Anyway... thought this info might help :-)>>

I'd sure agree with what Woz said.  I think Woz has an Apple IIx also.
When I see him this Friday, I'll ask him more on this matter.  Perhaps
I can borrow it and do some detail scans and digital photo's of it to put
online with some specs on it too.

Cheers,
Tom