Re: New Found IIgs

["Brad A. Korponay" <bwiebe@escape.ca>]

Hi John,

Thanks for the advice! I think I'll look into those Alltech drives.
Accelerator to come later. :-)

-Brad

"John King, Jr." <joki@eskimo.com> wrote in message
news:8nh1cr$ltm$1@eskinews.eskimo.com...
> ( I am a little newish to all this .... )
>
>     Alltech sells the FOCUS internal IDE drives. They're great, but supply
> may be backed up a little now and then. When I ordered the last one the
> card-only kits weren't available, and the ones with the 60 meg drives were
> just a little more anyway.
>     The drive is set up with a nice set of software for a IIgs. You place
it
> in slot 7 (if no AppleTalk), set the boot slot, and go.
>
>     SCSI cards are harder to come across, you can get them on ebay or hunt
> around. SCSI is more versatile, but slower (least mine is) than a FOCUS. I
> believe you need a modified REV A or REV C Apple SCSI, or a High Speed
Apple
> SCSI, or RAMFAST (fastest?) for the IIgs. There are other names but I
don't
> know about them. There are still a few old removables around on ebay also.
I
> have an old SyQuest 44 and it is a prefect size for one ProDos partition
and
> a 10 meg second partition. You can also format them with Mac HFS for a
> larger size (but with fewer diagnostic IIgs tools I guess), and can take
> these over to some Mac with a SyQuest and exchange data. Very nice. I have
> heard about SCSI scanners and CD-ROM players but I don't know about 'em.
>
>     Another good thing to have is an accelerator. I am trying to stabilize
a
> Zip GSX and can see the benefits. You will do just fine with a stock IIgs,
> but the speed is nice with the GUI and a few games. Sadly these are harder
> to find than a SCSI card.
>
> (I paid a lot for mine and I do not  know if I will get it to work
reliably.
> (sure is fun trying though!) )
>
> "Brad A. Korponay" <bwiebe@escape.ca> wrote in message
> news:DUSm5.1421$ak3.15973@news1.mts.net...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I grew up with a IIc and recently began the hunt to aquire one once
again
> > for the nostalgia of it all. During my hunt my in-laws came across a
IIgs
> > complete with RGB monitor, 3.5 & 5.25 drives and that amazing little
IIgs
> > keyboard all for $5.00! Wisely, they scouped it up and gave it to me.
:-)
> > It has several cards installed, though I've yet to examine them
> thoroughly.
> > My first thought is to get a hard drive for it. Where to begin? It
> requires
> > an internal SCSI host adapter or other internal card does it not? I've
> heard
> > mention that there are internal IDE cards which support 2.5" laptop
drives
> > as well. Is there a good source for these cards with or without the
actual
> > hard disk? Anyone willing to sell me one cheap?
> >
> > Thanks in advance, Brad
> >
> >
>
>