Re: Trying to cram GS/OS into a walnut

[jmholmes@swbell.net (John)]

Steve:

I have to admit that it seems like there is some kind of curse on me or 
something...  Everyone but me keeps running across all this stuff in the 
Salvation Army stores and other thrift stores and I can't find anything more 
technologically advanced than a broken electric typewriter.  And getting the 
stuff from Alltech, or should I say THE RIGHT STUFF from Alltech has proved 
equally frustrating.  I think that if I haven't heard anything out of them on 
Monday I am going to go ahead and have them scrap the whole order, refund my 
money (since they long ago cashed the check I sent them) and give up on the 
idea.  I know it would sure make my roommate happy to not walk in the 
apartment and see the GS taking over the kitchen table and just sitting there 
doing nothing.

In article <389CE336.6CF77ABE@webzone.net>, Stingray <stingray@webzone.net> 
wrote:
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>John wrote:
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>> Yea, if you can get them...  Been waiting on mine now for about 3 weeks with
>> still no drive in hand.  Not to mention the memory that they sent to me
> turned
>> out to be the wrong chips.  About ready to abandon the whole idea of getting
>> the GS to work and put it in the closet with the other one.
>>
>> In article <389C4ABC.4C921307@blakespot.com>, Blake Patterson
>> <blake@blakespot.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >        Why not spend the $70 for a ~500MB hard card from Alltech??  That
> works
>> >real nice.
>> >
>> >        http://www.allelec.com
>> >
>> >
>> >bp
>> >
>> >Jon Bettencourt wrote:
>> >>
>> >> If I were to make a ROM disk for the IIgs, how would I do it? Can it be as
>> >> big as 6.5MB? In what format should I save it in? Would it be the same as
>> >> an HDV file? I'm feeling like putting the complete GS/OS, plus a few extra
>> >> things, on there and booting off it.
>> >>
>> >> If I wanted to make an 800K disk with just enough files to successfully
>> >> boot up GS/OS and access files on AppleTalk, what files would I need? It
>> >> would need to fit on an 800K disk (with a few bytes taken away by the
>> >> Mac's Desktop file). After I accessed the disks on AppleTalk, could I
>> >> reboot from them?
>> >>
>> >> --
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>> >> jonrelay@napanet.net                        dimension18.cjb.net
>> >> An Apple II fanatic since 1998!     S0.5 LIS+++! Suzy+++! M1987
>> >> "Remember, if it's not a secure web server, it's an _insecure_
>> >> web server!"                                             -- Me
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>> >>
>> >>           Don't forget: Tammy Day on February 15th!
>> >> Please remove capital letters from my e-mail address to respond.
>> >
>
>John, I feel for you! It hurts when you're all ready to get a system together
> and
>you get stuck waiting for parts. I got really close to buying an Alltec drive
> and
>changed my mind at the last minute when I found an Apple High Speed SCSI card
>availble. Reading about the run around that you've gotten from Alltec makes me
>happy that happened. I was still considering buying some other stuff from them,
> but
>not any more. I think I'll stick to the more reliable used market. Boy does
> that
>sound odd!
>
>Steve
>
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