Re: IIgs info required

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Sean McNamara wrote:

>I've just been doing a major inventory of my Apple //e and IIgs bits and 
>bobs collecting part numbers, modem numbers, serial numbers, etc.

An admirable pursuit!  ;-)

>I have a couple of damaged/missing product labels, one of which I'm 
>curious about, and other missing items as follows:
>
>1. My IIgs (a free gift some years back), is ROM-01 according to the 
>startup screen, the part number on the motherboard is 607-0173-A and it 
>runs System 6, so that all seems consistent. Unfortunately, I can't find 
>any product label on this box - I'm presuming the smooth inset area at 
>the bottom of the case is where I would have expected to find the label 
>if it existed, no?
>
>2. The same IIgs is missing the coloured Apple logo on the front - does 
>anyone know of a source for these (ideally in Australia)? It looks very 
>sad without that logo :(

Logos are unusual by themselves, and sometimes fetch unreasonable
prices (e.g.:  twice the price of the whole computer!  ;-), possibly
because their shipping costs are negligible.

Whole IIgs machines are very inexpensive on eBay (usually $5-$10),
so you may want to get one--or just have it's cover or logo shipped.

>3. The same IIgs has its original keyboard, but the connector for the 
>mouse is damaged, and I don't have the original mouse. I don't suppose 
>anyone knows of a source (once again, Australian) to get a price for 
>these? Given I have heaps of Mac ADB keyboards and mice, I'm unlikely to 
>get the IIgs ones, but you never know.

See above.  ;-)  (Maybe, ship logo and motherboard...)

>4. I kept my original Apple ][ europlus disks from '83-84, including 
>some PFS data disks - but my dad didn't keep his PFS program disks. I 
>can't find PFS in any of the archives - is this because they're Pascal 
>format? Can anyone help with this?

Pascal format does not hinder saving the disks as images, either
with ADT or using ShrinkIt.  (Ironically, a full set of PFS: applications
was just auctioned on eBay for $9.38 US.)

I don't have any PFS: data, but if it is word processor documents,
the probability is high that just reading the files as ASCII--possibly
flipping the high bit--will recover the text (after editing out garbage).

-michael

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