apple 2gs

[leah <Lcham@concentric.net>]

 Hi I just wanted to introduce myself to this newsgroup after about a week of reading every tidbit I could find on the apple IIgs, I finally have learned 2 things

I know what ROM 1 and ROM 3 are and I know what the difference is between a gs and the IIs.

I recently purchased a IIgs used from a gentleman who kept the original boxes, packing materials, new apple owner stickers, upgrade boxes etc.  I am still wading through the disks and trying to understand how to operate a machine with 512k built in memory with a whopping 512k added to it.  The manuals are fantastic, 29 PAGES on a 3.5 disk drive?!?!?!?

 

Just thought I would share that with those of you who are into original packaging.

 

My son and I went throught the tutorial together and had fun running the mouse off the road.  

 

I still have not figured out how to run the disk action games and am wondering if they might have been erased somehow.

 

Questions.  Can I format my IBMclones 1.44mb 3.5s on the 3.5 mb hard drive?

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?

 

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?

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.