Re: Hard Disks (and controllers), Connectivity with PC

["Mr-T" <jonthorp@-no-spam-bigpond.net.au>]

btw, this is a "Woz" GS.

"Mr-T" <jonthorp@-no-spam-bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:gBUj8.13832$mp.63282@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Three years ago I was given an Apple IIGS by a school that was throwing
them
> away for scrap. Using X86 machines only, a IIGS was a really interesting
> experience, but all I had was the machine and a few floppy disk drives (a
3
> 1/4" and two 5 1/4" drives) with GS OS 5.xx (I think). As far as I know,
> this is a ROM1 GS with 4Mb of RAM (there's an extra card installed), with
no
> extra cards installed
>
> GS OS is great, but I have to constantly keep changing disks every time I
> want to run a program which does become somewhat annoying, but I wouldn't
> mind doing that if I had more than the three or four programs I have on
> disk.
>
> 1.) As I understand, there's a wealth of IIGS programs on the Internet,
but
> given my GS doesn't have any additional cards and I don't have access to a
> Mac, is there any way at all I can connect the IIGS to my PC? Is there
some
> way I can connect the IIGS between the wierd communications port it has
and
> the communications port on the PC?
>
> 2.) Is there any way that I can get software onto my IIGS since I don't
have
> access to any means of getting even a terminal program onto my GS?
>
> 3.) I have many old IDE (ranging from 40Mb-4.3Gb) hard drives (and
possibly
> one or two SCSI - but they would be too big, about 1Gb). Is there any way
I
> can utilise these disk drives on a IIGS?
>
> The hard drives are fine, but what about the controllers? Anyone know
about
> their availability in Australia? I honestly don't want to pay obscene
> amounts of money for an old SCSI/IDE controller for a IIGS, so price is
> definitely an issue.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
>