Re: A Few Q's Before I Take the Plunge

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Jason Rein" <uhmblittSPAMICIDE@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Greetings all,
>
> First a little background. My first experience with an Apple 2 was
> programming a IIgs in high school in '91. I still have the floppy and
> for 10 years it's been dormant. I'm wanting to get back into the IIgs
> but I have a few questions before I commit. I found some Apple 2
> hardware at a thrift recently (IIgs, monitor(s), keyboard, drives...all
> scattererd about). I'm mainly interested in the IIgs and a DuoDisk drive
> that I think went with that particular IIgs.

DuoDisk drives often don't work on the IIgs. I would just get a couple
of 3.5" drives and a 5.25" floppy. Most of the IIgs stuff came on 3.5"
floppies and the 5.25" stuff was mostly legacy IIe software.

> And now for my questions...
>
> What kind of quality can I expect if I were to hook the IIgs up to a TV?
> I'm trying to save space by not purchasing a monitor.

Not good. It can only do 40 columns plus some of the extended
graphics modes aren't available on the TV.  With the cost of a used
GS monitor, I would get the monitor.

> Is there any way to figure out which ROM version the IIgs is without
> starting it up? Are there any indicators on any chips or on the board?
>
Yes sir. Pop the hood and check to see if the main memory near the
slots is 256k or a full meg of RAM. If there is only four chips
near the slots marked in a box, then its a ROM 1. If there is a large
bank of RAM there, its a ROM 3.

> Thanks,
> Jason
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