Re: now it's an obsession

[8bitz@my-deja.com]

Hey
I have to stop playing with this old hardware because I really get
obsessive.  :)
My GS wouldn't read the disks that were initialized on my centris. I
forgot to init them in prodos mode. Then I got sidetracked in a sim ant
game and didn't get back to the GS.

Now I have been reading the FAQ on the apple//e card for the LC. I have
an LC475. I have several LC II's :) I wonder what I could trade them
for?

Is this the right newsgroup to post a trade/want list? Is there a web
page for this?

Thanks
Mark

In article <3A0B0ED6.4926232C@swbell.net>,
  Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
> 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
>


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