Apple IIgs with lots of stuff and a few questions

["Lyman Green" <lymang@gmail.com>]

I've come into possession of an Apple IIGS (free from a local
Freecycler, http://www.freecycle.org )- it appears to be one of the
batch signed by Woz.  It came with no monitor, but boxes of disks and
MANY books and manuals.  I haven't yet tried to boot it yet to figure
out what ROM revision it is because it didn't come with a monitor and I
realized it's got the old-school Apple adapter and I don't know if I've
got the right kind of cable.  Now I happen to have a Commodore 1080 RGB
monitor and it appears as though that will work if I can get a cable
that has the right bits on either end, so my quest recently has been to
find one of those.  The faqs I've read talk a good bit about hooking a
IIGS up to a 1084 but this is definitely not the same monitor - it
looks like it's got a DB9 male connecter on the 1080 and that's not the
same as what I've seen listed for the 1084.  Anyhoo, I will be taking
pictures of everything (including the inside of my IIGS) and posting to
my Flickr site.  I'd like to offer up my stuff as a resource to anyone
constructing a site with info about cards, etc.  I've already got a few
questions - the IIGS has a card in it that has an external connector
that looks similar but not the same as the ADB port - it has more pins.
 Not sure what that is - an advanced serial port maybe is what I seem
to remember from the Macs.  They were those round DIN cable setups.
Anyhoo I don't know what it is or why it is there. :-)

I would probably be willing to send some portion of these books and
manuals to someone who would put them to good use - documenting the
history of the Apple 2. I doubt I need or even want all of them.

If anyone has nice solid concrete info on where to get a cable that
will work from the IIGS to a Commodore 1080 monitor I"d appreciate that
info.

Lyman