Re: What IIgs configurations are people using?

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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Mike Guidero wrote:
> Just a curiosity of mine.  I want to know what configurations of IIgs's that 
> people are actually using.

ROM 01 with the following:
- - 4.25 MB RAM
- - ZipGS @ 12.5 MHz w/ 64k cache
- - RamFAST rev. C
  - IBM 0661-371 320MB hard drive
  - Iomega Zip (100MB)
  - Panasonic 4x CD-ROM (still haven't gotten this working, though)
- - 3.5" & dual 5.25" floppy drives (the latter is a DuoDisk)
- - SoundMeister sound card

All of this stuff (except the Zip drive and CD-ROM drive) is installed in a
IIe case, along with the guts of a 250W PS/2-type power supply.  It's been
very flaky lately, though...it crashes at the slightest provocation while
GS/OS is up, but it seems somewhat more stable under ProDOS 8.  Occasional
problems popped up when I boosted the accelerator to 12.5 MHz (it was at 7
or 8 MHz before that), but it's been really bad since I moved the hard drive
and a bigger power supply into the case.  I'm waiting for a replacement
stock IIe power supply to arrive (purchased dirt-cheap from an eBay seller,
as the supply that was in this machine replaced a dead power supply in my
II+)...once it gets here, I'll yank out the hard drive, put in the new power
supply, and mount the hard drive in an external case.  I also have an Apple
DMA SCSI card to swap in to see if I can get the CD-ROM drive to work right
(it works fine with my Mac and my homebrew Athlon box, so I know it's not a
drive problem), and I should probably replace the junkbox sockets I used for
the cache and oscillator on the accelerator with something better
(machined-pin sockets, for instance).

The monitor is an NEC MultiSync 3D, though I still have an Apple Monitor II
green-screen stashed away that came with this system originally (was
purchased new in 1985 as a IIe).  I also have it plugged into a Cayman
GatorBox CS so it can share files with my Mac (a Quadra 610) and my Linux
box (a homebrew dual-P!!! 500).  It's not currently set up to print to
anything.  I have an Imagewriter and a StyleWriter, but they're both put
away.  I need to make the printers plugged into the Athlon system (which
runs Win2K Pro) available through netatalk so my various Apples can see
them...probably the easiest to get working would be the Lexmark Optra Color
40, since it speaks PostScript.  (I also have a Brother HL-630, but I'd need
a PCL driver to use that.) That'd involve going from LocalTalk to EtherTalk
to TCP/IP to parallel, and from PAP (?) to SMB.  If I can get an IBM PC/XT
to talk to this printer over the network, though (and I have), then I should
be able to get my IIGS to talk to it as well.  (It helps that the XT can
speak SMB and TCP/IP...it actually gets along with Windows and Linux
machines fairly easily.)

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