Re: unknown card/ram/gsmodem?

[treiter@comet.net (Toby Reiter)]

In article <4ktv22$s8j@kryten.awinc.com>, none@awinc.com wrote:

>Hi,
>        I'm trying to get this iigs I picked up in working condition and
have some 
>questions for the ii gurus out there. First of all, I have the "APL B"
printer card which 
>I asked about a couple weeks ago. Thanks for the "PR#n" suggestion someone 
>gave me, which worked, but I still can't get it to work with appleworks.
Is there some 
>special parameter I have to set? something I'm doing wrong. I read the
article about 
>"poke ###" but couldn't get anywherewith it.
Did you remeber to specify in Appleworks which slot you have the parallel
printer card in?  What printer is at the end of the cable?
>I have only 1 drive controller card in slot 6 (by the way, how do you
change to >your second drive from the " ] " prompt. 
You do know that the GS doesn't need drive controller cards, right?  I
would suggest buying Apple 5.25" disks or Unidisk 5.25"'s and at least one
Apple 3.5" drive (these are available for $35 used).
>Is there any electronic documents out there I could download on llgs basics?
Do you mean the basics of using a IIgs or Applesoft Basic?  I can send
you, for a nominal charge, the Owner's Guide to the IIgs.
>I also have the "apple iigs memory expansion" card with only the 256k 
>soldered in chips. What chips go in the rest of the sockets. Could I pull
the ram out of an old ii+? Does anyone know the name of the chip I could
use?
The name of the chip is called NEW MEMORY BOARD. Seriously, if you truly
want to use you IIgs effectively, you should sell your old board and buy a
new (used) 2-4 meg board.  These are available for relatively low prices
(maybe $40-50) used.
> And finally, I can't find a serial card anywhere to hook up a modem. I was 
>wondering if I could make or find an adapter to plug into adb modem port
on the >back of the llgs to plug into a regular db25 modem interface? or
do you have to >have a modem designed for that port.
You can either buy a modem specifically designed for that port (the only
ones I am sure of are the Teleport modems, which a re bad to buy for a
IIgs) or you could buy a normal modem with a cable which connects the adb
port and the db25 interface.  These cables should be widely available
because of all the Macintosh users out there (see they are useful for
something:).
Good luck!

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