Re: //gs questions

[ab616@chebucto.ns.ca (Tony Cianfaglione)]

Jeff Billman (jeff_billman@hp.com) wrote:
> I recently aquired an Apple //gs and I am trying to get it working.

> The system has an internal 20MB drive and an external 5.25 uniDisk (if I
> remember the name correctly) and an 800K 3.5 floppy (non-daisy
> chainable).

If it's white, it's a UniDisk; if it's platinum gray, it's an Apple 3.5"
Drive.

> I can get the system to boot from the HD with no problem and the 5.25
> disk appears to work OK.  The 800K drive is giving me problems though. 
> Is there an order to daisy chain the drives?

The 3.5" drive must go before any 5.25" drives.  Make sure you have Slot 5
set to Disk Port; if it is set to your card, change it.  

> The system sez that it is booting ProDOS8 v 1.8.  If I cannot get the
> 800K disk working is there an easy way to upgrade to GO/OS 6.01?  Can I
> use LocalTalk to copy files to my //gs from one of my Macs?  

If you can get a terminal program and connect to local freenet via dialup,
you can download 6.0.1 from Apple's ftp site.

> Does anyone know of a good and/or cheap source of documentation for the
> //gs.  This beast is considerably different than my old Apple][.

There are FAQs at: http://128.255.21.234/apple2/Faqs/ that may help you
out.

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