Re: Schoolastic Echo card question.

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

8bitz@my-deja.com writes ...
> 
> I have a system 5 GS disk and thats all.
> I tried downloading the system
> disks from a2central.com but I couldn't get them to binhex convert. So
> I downloaded them through AOL 3 on my centris but they won't unstuff :(
> I saw in your FAQ about the apple ftp site. Thats going to be my next
> stop.

     If you are using a Mac, the Apple site may work out okay. Otherwise,
your best bet is probably one of these two sites:

USA2WUG
http://www.grin.net/~cturley/USA2WUG/SystemSoftware/IIgsSystem601disks/

Tarnover
http://tarnover.dyndns.org/System/Sys601INSTALL/


The disk files on these sites are ShrinkIt whole-disk archives with a ".bin"
suffix to make sure the files are transferred as binary and not corrupted.
Once transferred to your IIgs, each .sdk file can be uncompressed to a 3.5"
DD diskette using ShrinkIt v3.4 or GS-ShrinkIt.

     After downloading and transferring the files to the IIgs, you can change
the names of the "sdk.bin" files to ".sdk". For example "SYSTOOLS1sdk.bin"
would become "SYSTOOLS1.sdk". This should make it easier for ShrinkIt to
recognize the files. 


(One of the disks on Tarnover has an ".sdk" ending. Since Tarnover is an http
site, that disk would probably arrive in corrupted form. Fortunately, it is
not an important part of the set. The suffix should be corrected to ".bin" in
a few days. Or, you can read about how to download such files and remove the
corruption at ...

http://www.grin.net/~cturley/gsezine/GS.WorldView/v2000/Oct/ .

Click on "Download Help".)



     For an overview of the IIgs, see ...

http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs5MAINHALL.html .


     For info about .sdk files, see ...

http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2FLUTILS.html .


     For info about transferring files from your net computer to your IIgs,
see ...

http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2T1TCOM.html .


> I was never much of an apple person until recently. This local project
> I volunteer for was clearing out their warehouse of older computer
> stuff and I grabbed a few dozen different apple/mac things. The first
> time I saw an apple was in some rich girls house back in 1978. Her dad
> was an investment banker of some sort and they had an apple. And the
> most amazing thing was the floppy disk drive :)

     For sure. When we first went from cassette tape to a Disk ][ floppy
drive on our Apple it was like suddenly having a super Apple II.


> She loaded up some sort of a 3d wire frame demo where you went inside a
> house. I was totally amazed. I was also nowhere near the 2500.00 it
> cost to buy one of them :)  Now to see a pallet full of old apple IIe's
> going to the dumpster is ironic.

     Nice piece of luck! Grom all the Apple II goodies you can. 

> 
> Thanks for your info.

     You're welcome.



Rubywand