Re: Help! Apple IIgs

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <01bcbb3d$cf9503e0$499f5ed1@krystal>,
xIcEgRipx <str8edg@javanet.com> wrote:
>I got an Apple IIgs with ROM 01, no cards, no hard drives, a 5 1/2
>and a 3 1/2 drive.

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   If there are no cards in this system, then this GS has only 256K of
memory in it, and you'll be unable to use pretty much all of the
GS-specific fun desktops, and the like. [Apple forgot to manufacture a
system where people could *use* the neat graphics they bought it for;
they later sold a usable system out of the box.] 

   You'll probably going to have to add more RAM to the system before
it'll really be useful. The comp.sys.apple2 Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ) at http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/faq/csa2.html has pointers to
several manufacturers of GS ram cards.

>Can I set up a 30 meg partition on my PC and connect my Appl IIgs and PC
>with a serial cable and then use the 30 meg partition on my PC to install
>system 6.0.1 to run on my Apple?

   First off, don't even think about touching System 6.x (or 5.x or
4.x) without at least 1MB ram (preferably 2). [It's possible to get by
on 768K in some cases, but that's really crippling yourself] I don't
know of any GS/OS (forget it for ProDOS 8) serial-line drivers that'll
go to any other computer, but it wouldn't be that hard overall to
write.

Nathan Mates
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