Re: Help me with this please!

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Christopher Rose writes ...
> 
> I just bought a IIgs at a thrift store. IT has a bunch of cards that
> have applied engineering on them. I used to be a IIe expert in my high
> school years, but the IIgs came along as I moved over to IBM's. The
> best I can tell this is what I have.
 ....
> Some othe card that has a set of wires that plugs into the brown
> connector by the RAM expansion card slot and annother connector that
> connects to the fan plug on the back of the motherboard. It has what
> looks like a speaker jack or microphone connector.
>

     If this is a Slot card, it is probably a Stereo Board with outputs to drive
speakers and/or a hi-fi amplifier with, perhaps, an input for digitizing sound
from a microphone. It this is a small board which fits in no Slot, it is likely
to be the HyperStudio sound digitizer (input) board.


 
> Boots up with ROM rev3 and to some kind of gui that looks like finder
> in a mac? When I got out of apple II's prodos was just comming along
> so I havn't got a clue what this is. I'm looking to locate drivers and
> copies of manuals for all theese items. I'm also in the market for a
> keyboard and mouse for this thing. Right now I'm using my MAC keyboard
> and dtm. I'm also looking for an APPLE SCSI card and a board that has
> the biggest amount of RAM possible to put on this thing. Also in
> search of software or links to sites about the IIgs. ANy info on this
> machine is appreciated
 ....

     You can get more information about the IIgs at one of the newsgroup FAQs
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