Re: Me and My new Apple IIGS

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clayedge@aol.com (Clay Edge) wrote:

>Hello,
>I just bought an Apple IIGS as kind of a hobby.  It is a ROM01 machine with a
>fully populated 1meg expansion card.  I was wondering if anyone out there has
>some advice to give to upgrade this machine.  I want at least 4meg ram, a Hard
>Disk,   quite possibly an accellerator card.

The accelerator will take searching.  It is only available used and there is
a demand for them.  For memory and hard disk, Alltech has them.
See www.allelec.com.  If you are willing to spend the money, it looks
from the prices there that you can have 4MB and a hard disk for less
than $100.  The memory card they sell takes 386 style SIMM.

>Also if I get a modem, added to the mix, is there any site out there that I
can
>connect to with this older machine.

If you have a freenet, you can.  Compuserve, Genie, and Delphi will
serve Apple II connections too.

>Also(again)  In regards to a R0M03 gs.  What are the differences other than
>the amount of memory?  Would it be hard to purchase a ROM03 board and
>replace the old one? 
>
>Any help would be great.

It would not be hard at all, just swap the motherboards.  The ROM03
less noise on the audio.  I used to think it was just the ROM 1's power
supply, but the noise is still there after you towerize.  The battery on
the ROM 3 is not soldered.  You can replace it with Mac batteries.