Re: //gs questions

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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 is non-daisychainable, then it is either a Macintosh 800k drive
or a Laser 800k drive (the non daisychain model).  Both don't
work with the IIGS port.  You need a Universal Disk Controller
(UDC) card made by Video Technology (manufacturer of Laser
hardware and computers).  The previous owner probably HAS
such a card int he system (since you have the drive on the IIGS).

Look inside the IIGS case.  Find the UDC card.  Connect the
800k drive to this card rather than the back of the 5.25 drive.
That should solve your problem.

>One more question.... I am looking to hook up a color monitor to the
>system and am looking for info on the //gs video connector.  Will an
>Apple /// monitor work?  I have a Panasonic monitor which supports the
>Apple /// (among others) I would like to use.

Any monitor that works on the IIGS, the Amiga 1000, or the
Atari ST series will work with the IIGS port.  It is 15khz
analog RGB.