Re: Vindicate the Apple IIGS

[hmag@ozemail.com.au (Terry Allen)]

In article <1998082800281300.UAA01966@ladder03.news.aol.com>, tuvac@aol.com
(Tuvac) wrote:

> My aunt who uses BankStreet writer and other software on her IIGS wanted me to
> get her e-mail capability on her IIGS.  She doesn't have the money to go out
> and buy a new Mac or PC to surf the internet graphically and e-mail. 
Since she
> (and many other teachers) still use a II GS at school why should she use
> something different at home?  I've bought a modem, the cable that connects the
> external modem's serial port to the II GS's port so the hardware is all set (I
> think). But I can't download terminal emulator software successfully from the
> 'net, nor do I know where I can buy some (I'm in the Hartford, CT area)  I've
> tried to download Kermit for the IIGS and part of it is binscii'ed.  So, I
> downloaded binscii.exe to a Mac that was connected to the net, copied it to an
> Apple II (not Mac) formated floppy.  When I type 'cat' the IIGS reads the disk
> and tells me binscii.exe is there but when I type 'exec binscii.exe' I get a
> FILE TYPE MISMATCH error.  Under cat binscii.exe's type is $00 which I
think is
> wrong.  
> 1. What did I do wrong?  
> 2. Is there anyway I can download stuff to a PC and transfer it to her 3.5"
> 800K Apple IIGS floppy drive?  Some of my friends have Mac's on the net so I
> could download to their Mac's if it's easier than using a PC.  I've searched
> all over the net and found Apple II emulators and even played around with
Apple
> II Oasis but I can't figure out how to get files that are on an MS-DOS file
> system to a Apple II disk image. I also have access to the Lynx OS on a PC if
> that would help.
> 3. If no one can answer 1 & 2 or direct me to internet sites that help explain
> this, does anyone have ready to run Apple IIGS software for sale that can make
> use of the modem and dial up to an ISP for text-based internet and
e-mail? BTW,
> she has no Hard Drive and the floppy that loads her GUI (that's GS/OS I
guess?)
> is corrupt.
> Any help is greatly appreciated.  My father, with his Pentium PC (and others
> that do computer work with Macs in the same school system with all those
> IIGSes), say that the Apple IIGS is "not even capable of getting on the
> internet or using a modem" and that she should just throw it out.  Help me
> vindicate the IIGS, I KNOW it is more than capable, I just haven't been!

It seems that many who have replied to this thread have lost the fact that
he seems to be using a PC, not a Mac. In any case, I seem to remember
reading about a piece of software from someone like Dataviz that let's you
format & read software from a Mac, so the best bet would be to format an
800k floppy from the GS in HFS, then copy the software from the PC download
onto it using the PC software. Can't remember any more info than this
though.

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