Re: Is this a healthy IIgs?

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

"John" <johnw_94020@yahoo.comPDA> wrote in message 
news:1103387536.bc0debd53bf0687abf10b7019d466aed@teranews...
>I am just getting started with this so go easy on me. Frankly I never knew 
>a
> IIgs could do this.  In elementary school in the 1980's and early 1990's 
> our
> IIGs's and other Apple II's never had a desktop. We had to load each disk
> individually, there was never an os.

Yeah, as I highly doubt that most schools used the machine to its full 
potential. As I remember, my elementary school pretty much treated it like a 
new IIe. We had some GS-specific stuff on disks, but I never even saw GS/OS 
until many years later, after most of the II line had been retired from 
service.

-Greg

>
> My IIgs
> http://johnw.freeshell.org/IIgs.gif
>
> 1)  I use DiskCopy and Superduper for disk images.  Would you reccommend
> ShrinkWrap or am I okay?
> 2)  I for some reason cannot load NIB disks on the desktop, but only pure
> ProDOS disks. Is this normal?
> 3)  Is it possible to load HFS disks on the desktop?
> 4)  How can I setup Appletalk?  Its enabled on my Mac, but when I try to 
> do so
> on the IIgs it crashes and says I need to laod AppleShare or whatever.
>
> This is getting fun.  Reminds me allot of my earlier apple computing days.
>