Re: Wanted: answers for now...

[firead <noneoy@rbiznes.org>]

In article <3955143F.22E6DEF5@dcnet2000.com>, Phoenyx 
<quazar@dcnet2000.com> wrote:

> Ram might be a problem for GS software. You can get a good ram
> card from Alltech. It is expandable to 8 megs, IIRC.

Yes, I went there and looked at their supplies. 

> This may be caused by several different things.
>  a) disk bit rot. Older disks may lose the image over time.

I'm beginning to think that's it becasue I was finally able to get some 
titles on 5.25 disk to run. Oregon Trail and Comic Strip Maker :P
Starblazer, Thunderchooper, Midnight Magic and all the other interesting 
sounding ones wouldn't work of course.

> That's a good question. I don't have an answer though. 

Mr.Sheppard covered that one for me in another post :-)

> The drives you mention are from Alltech. Their stock varies and
> currently they may only have 60 meg drives. All the drives they
> use are laptop sized. 60 megs is probably enough as most Apple2
> software is relatively small. The drive will have 2 partitions
> probably as Prodos can only handle a 32 meg partition.
> 
> Alternatively, you can use a SCSI drive and may prefer to go
> this route. I can't help much here though. You will need a
> scsi card and drive and maybe an adapter to connect the two.
> I have thought about doing this for some 80 meg drives I have
> but as yet, I haven't gotten around to this. If you can't find
> an external scsi, you should be able to get an external drive
> case with power supply from someplace like Tiger Direct.

Well, I guess a 60MB will have to do then. I have some older narrow scsi 
drives and an external case. They're all 1.2 GB and up though. 

> Mainly because the parts are harder to find. Basic components
> are easy, but most expansion parts were made by other companies.
> Then there is the auction fever. Many people have gotten caught
> up in the bidding process and have bid some outrageous prices.
> This in turn has led many people to believe they can make a
> killing of these old parts. What a vicious cycle.

Yeah, I looked at ebay in my search and was amazed at the outrageous 
prices. You could get 1st generation Powermac for some of the prices 
people were paying!

> http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/

Yup, I discovered that in my search :-)