Re: HELP need early Version of Apple 2GS O/S.

[jmk3@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell)]

>From: cris@cm.deakin.OZ.AU (Christopher Welsh)
 
>I have looked everywhere for another system but could only find
>sys 5xx. When I boot from this system, I get a messege telling me I need a
>later version of ROM to drive this system.
 
System 5.0.x (2, 3, and 4) require ROM 1 or ROM 3. ROM 1 replaced ROM 0, I
think, in 1987 and the upgrade remains a free upgrade at Apple dealers. If your
dealer won't do it, bug them and call the Apple 800 number.
ROM 0 is ancient and incompatibly. Upgrade ASAP.
 
>My question is, is there a archive sit that carries pre sys 5xx O/S?
 
I doubt it. America Online, GEnie, and CompuServe might still have Sytem 4 and
_maybe_ 3.2. I don't know if these work with ROM 0, but you don't want them
anyway. You want ROM 1.
 
>Can I copy the images over to my mac plus and make a disk for the IIGS on the
>Plus's drive?
 
You have at least 3 options to get files from a Mac to a IIGS.
 
1>Put the file on a Mac disk and read it with System 6's HFS FST.
2>Put the file on a ProDOS disk on the Mac with Apple File Exchange.
3>Put the file on a ProDOS disk on the Mac with the ProDOS File System
extension installed.
 
Apple File Exchange has come with Mac's for a while. You probably don't have
the other two.
 
  --Jay, jay.krell@cornell.edu