Re: Which Apple II?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

> For practical reasons, I agree with Paul, although it's my IIe that
> is on a side desk and my IIgs that sits on the floor in the corner.
> I just personally like the IIe better because I don't care for GS/OS
> that much.

I have both running and when tired of one I switch to the other.
They both have their unique and wonderful purposes in the
classic computer world. ;-)

> To me, Dos 3.3 and Prodos are classic microcomputing, and GS/OS is
> a poor imitation of modern operating systems. These days I'm so
> spoiled by 1600x1200x32 accelerated antialiased graphics, I can
> hardly stand to look at the IIgs finder for more than 5 minutes.
> Demos and games are still ok though.

IMHO, the modern operating systems are an improved imitation of
Mac OS and GS/OS. ;-) I love the GS, I can boot a floppy of ProDOS
and when ready type IN#5 from the basic prompt and boot the GS/OS
partition for a higher experience of classic computing.

> The IIgs has a Zip-GS (currently at 12.5 Mhz) and a 4Mb RAM Card,
> but the Hi-Speed SCSI is in the IIe, along with the 1Mb Ramworks III,
> a Super Serial Card, a Novation AppleCat (currently displacing another
> SSC), Apple Mouse Card, TimeMaster H.O., & Disk II Card. Anyone know
> anything useful to put in slot 3 that won't conflict with the Ramworks?

First I know of nothing that won't conflict, but I have a question.
Is there software I need for the RamWorks II and III? I have both
and would like to run one in each of my IIe's.

> I can imagine selling the IIgs someday, but not the IIe, never!

I can imagine selling 2-3 of my IIgs's. ;-)

> P.S. On another topic, my IIe power supply died last week. I just
> swapped it out with a spare I had, but I'd like to know what might
> be wrong with it. When it was still in the IIe, the symptoms were
> that you could turn on the computer, and after 2-5 minutes, the
> power would simply cut off. If I tried switching it off and on
> again, it wouldn't power up. If I switched it off and then waited
> a while before switching it back on, then it would come up for the
> above mentioned 2-5 minutes. This started happening suddenly about
> a week ago. It's the first problem I've had with the computer at
> all since it was bought in 1983.

Sounds like an A/C input capacitor. Might only be the solder decayed
from the lead to the trace pad.

> P.P.S. Ok I did fry the main board once, but that was my fault.
> The manual always said not to pull the cards out while the computer
> was on, but 14-year-olds sometimes know better than manuals, or
> so they think. And it worked the first time I tried it....

I take them out with power on all the time, but never try to install one
that way. I guess I'm absent minded too. ;-)

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises };-)
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Email - willy46pa@comcast.net



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