Re: Questions about a IIgs....

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Marlin Bates, IV writes ...
> 
> I just bought a IIgs after seeing them and desiring them for a couple of
> years.  Of course, it has no manuals, no disks and such.
> 
> I have, however, been collecting a few oidds and ends here and there for it so
> I have a monitor (12" RGB) and a couple of floppy drives (3.5/5.25).  However,
> I still have a few questions.....
> 
> Inside there are four expansion cards:
> Memory Expansion (Apple)
> "Firmware ID" Card (third party)
> A "Sandwich" card (??)
> A Super Serial Card (Apple)
> 
> I can guess what the Super Serial card is.  WHat in the blooming heck are the
> rest of these things?!?!?!
>

     I don't know about the Sandwich or Firmware ID cards.

 
> Also, how can I create System disks from the Apple web site?

 ....


     You can download System 6.0.1 from Apple at ... 

ftp://ftp.apple.com/dts/aii/sys.soft/gs.system.6.0.1/


     The disks are in the from of binscii (.bsc) files of ShrinkIt disk
archive files which include a Binary II header (i.e. binscii-ed .bxy
files). As a test, I downloaded sysdisk.bsc, transferred it to the GS
via NUll-modem, and converted it to diskette form. All of the files
Validated as Okay.

     The process isn't all that much trouble. Since Apple maintains each
disk in binscii-ed .bxy form, the conversion process does take two
steps. You need to run binscii on the .bsc file-- I used Jawaid Bazyar's
GSCII Plus NDA. This produced sysdisk.bxy. GS-ShrinkIt was used to
unShrink sysdisk.bxy to an 800k diskette to produce the Sys 6.0.1
System.Disk

     Use the same procedure for the other .bsc disk files in the set.

     To run System 6.0.1 you will, very possibly, end up pulling all of
the cards and, at least, plugging in a 4MB Memory Expansion card.




Rubywand