Re: IIgs serial port, a walk down memory lane, and 5 1/4" image convertions

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

Ken Tucker" <ktucker@iit.net> wrote in message
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> Perhaps a question I could get by scrounging the net, but on the back on
my
> IIgs is a modem port. It is circular, 9 pins (I think), and is identical
to
> the printer port. Is this a serial port? Someone recently suggested that I
> get a Super Serial Card, but why would I need one if the IIgs already has
a
> serial port? It looks identical to ports on the back of my Mac Performa...
> Can anyone answer?

It is an RS-422 port which is a fast serial port.  It will support speeds
up to around 38k. A Super Serial card will only support speeds up to
19.2K.  You are better off using the IIgs port. It is a mini-8 pin din
connection which is used in Appletalk so that you could set up an
Appletalk network with your Mac by using an 8-pin to 8-pin serial
cable or get two localtalk connectors and phone cord.  To set up
Appletalk, you need to go into the Control Panel and set either slot
1 or slot 2 to Appletalk.  You will then need to load the Appletalk
driver using GS/OS.  To get to control panel, command/control/esc.
Plus I think it would work better with a hard drive. I have my Mac
Classic II networked to my IIgs and I can transfer files between them.
It is pretty cool. The Mac acts as a file server.

> Thanks in advance.
>
> I'm so excited to have a working IIgs now! I just got my floppy drives in
> today and an old ProDOS 3.5" disk I had from 1990 still booted and my
> Applesoft Basic programs (complete with mouse support!) still work! I'm so
> proud of myself. ;) And the ProDOS commands have almost come back to me.
> Except for all those damn peeks and pokes! I used them throughout my
program
> (along with a zillion gosubs and gotos)! There's no way I'll ever being
able
> to trace this. Anyone remember RENUMBER? I should find and run that - in
> parts, my code is numbered in 1's - 10, 20, 21, 22, 25, 30, etc. haha!

I think Renumber was part of the original II ROM set which has since
gone away in the II plus and above. One of the archive sites has a listing
of the Peeks and Pokes.

> One last question... Can anyone think of a way to get a 5 1/4" Apple II
disk
> image to work from a 3.5" disk (since I don't have a 5 1/4" drive and
don't
> want to buy one if I don't have to)? I have a PC and Mac with 1.44"
drives.
> I know I can get a 5 1/4" disk image to the Mac, but I'm not sure if I can
> de-image it and copy it to a 3.5" disk (800k, of course).

Nope.  It must be expanded to a 140k diskette.   A disk image is a track by
track copy of a diskette including the disk structure.  You can pick up
Apple 5.25
drives pretty cheap these days. I saw one at Goodwill today for .99
cents.  The other way is to use an Apple II Mac emulator to load the
image and then copy the files to a ProDOS disk on the Mac. I think the
emulator is called Bernie II the Rescue.  It should be able to read the disk
image and then just copy the files to a ProDOS disk.

> Ken
>
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