It was a long process to build these two machines. I owned a IIgs back in the '80s but sold it when I needed room for newer PCs. What got me back into it was the CFFA3000. When I saw what it could do, I immediately ordered two of them (they were available at the time) before I had any real hardware. After that I just kept my eye on eBay and pieced together these two systems. I built the IIGSes that I originally wanted but could not afford and spent way more than $1000 to put these systems together so I could never sell them for that. What you don't see is all the extra hardware I'm no longer using from extra IIgs chassises to memory cards, keyboards, monitors, Ramfast SCSI cards and mice.
Also my goal was not to build a IIGS that was all original hardware but one that fixed the short comings of the original systems. The original CRT display was too small and after 30 years those displays are failing so being able to drive an LCD flatscreen of any size is wonderful. Just wait until you see a 52" IIgs display. It's great! I hated the original IIgs keyboard so I replaced it with a Mac keyboard. So these two machine are comfortable for me to use.
Here's a bit of trivia. Remember how we're we're told that the 03 IIGS was faster booting than the 01 because there were less tools to load into RAM? With the TWGS in both machines they now finish pretty much in a dead heat. I'll have to post a video if anyone is interested.
Gerry
Also my goal was not to build a IIGS that was all original hardware but one that fixed the short comings of the original systems. The original CRT display was too small and after 30 years those displays are failing so being able to drive an LCD flatscreen of any size is wonderful. Just wait until you see a 52" IIgs display. It's great! I hated the original IIgs keyboard so I replaced it with a Mac keyboard. So these two machine are comfortable for me to use.
Here's a bit of trivia. Remember how we're we're told that the 03 IIGS was faster booting than the 01 because there were less tools to load into RAM? With the TWGS in both machines they now finish pretty much in a dead heat. I'll have to post a video if anyone is interested.
Gerry
