Bringing a IIgs to life without any boot disks

[David Flory <dafloryspamxx@hotmail.com>]

Hello everyone,

I recently bought my first Apple; a nice ROM3 IIgs.  It works perfectly 
with an ancient copy of Appleworks, but I have no system disks.

I have a couple questions that I hope someone can help me with:

1.)  Is there any way to get the IIgs to load Prodos and disk images 
from a PC using just the serial port, and ROM basic/assembler?  (I've 
never heard of this but I thought it would be worth asking.)

2.)  I'd be interesting in adding an old Mac to my collection if I can 
use it directly write bootable 800KB images for the IIgs.  Can anyone 
tell me what kind of Mac I need?
What's the latest Mac model/System ver. that can write Apple IIgs images?


Thanks,

Dave