Re: apple 2gs

[gareth@vcn.bc.ca (Gareth Jones)]

leah (Lcham@concentric.net) wrote:
: 
: 
: Questions.  Can I format my IBMclones 1.44mb 3.5s on the 3.5 mb hard
: drive?

I think you are asking if you can format 1.44MB 3.5inch drives on the 3.5"
floppy drive ;-0 In a word, no. It formats what would ordinarily be a 720K
IBM disk into an 800K ProDOS disk. The higher density disks are not
reliably formatted on them, I'm told.
 
: and why did I download an apple emulator? Will this help me transfer
: files to my IIgs.   And how do I add a hard drive?  What am I looking
: for?  How big do I go?

The usual way to get a hard drive is to buy a SCSI card and a
Macintosh-style external SCSI hard drive. There are other hard drives that
are installed on their controller cards, like an IBM "hard card." For
example, Alltech sells one called the Focus Hard Drive. It is a little
cheaper than the SCSI route, but not as flexible. You can't chain extra
drives, CD-ROMs, etc. to a Focus card.
 : 
: This coming from a beamerhead with 96mbram.  I just installed a second
: hard drive to my beamerbot and lived through the partitions.
: 
: I am a little kibbiddled over this apple however, I opened the hood and
: everything was labeled (sound chip, etc.) so that was fun but now how to
: fill in those empty slots is there any way to have the machine recognize
: 14 slots?

So little experience with a GS, and yet you have unerringly identified our
secret shame.

: and how do I add more RAM or ROM.  Is there any way to retrofit a jazz
: drive and have it read on my clone and also have it connect to my gs?
: Anyhow sounds like fun, and until my son is out of  a school system
: which uses IIgs's make mine
: an APPLE.
: 
You can buy 4 or 8MB RAM cards from Sequential Systems (who also sell SCSI
cards) or from Alltech Electronics, among others. Nathan Mates' web page
http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2 
will surely get you in touch with them,
among other fine vendors. Then
download your System 6.01 (the latest version of GS System Software), the
six disks of HyperCard IIgs, ask Seven Hills Software, EGO Systems, and
Vitesse Inc. for their catalogues, and have fun!

-Gareth