Re: Newbie Problems (//e, //c, IIGS troubleshooting)

["Dylan Lainhart" <masterdlx@stny.rr.com>]

"Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill" <wbdesnoy@ucalgary.ca> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.43.0201210747030.403-100000@babbage...
>
> Hi Dylan,
>
> A few details will help: does your IIgs have a 3.5" drive?  Do you have
> access to an older (Quadra or earlier) Macintosh?  You may be able to
> obtain blank disks from Radio Shack, or used disks simply by watching
> second hand shops.

Yes, my IIgs has a 3.5 drive.  I have an LCIII also.  But I don't have any
DSDD disks. I can't find any from Radioshack.com.

> As far as I know, there is no practical way to access your disk drive on
> the Apple II without having some form of DOS available.  There should be,
> there had to be a first DOS after all, but nobody has gone to the detail
> of documenting it.  I wonder why.  As ADT demonstrates, it is possible to
> send a program via the serial port.  Why couldn't the same thing be done
> for DOS itself?  (Ie. send enough of DOS to write data to a diskette,
> initialize the diskette, then save the image.)  This approach would cover
> the IIc, IIgs as well as any II, II+, IIe with a serial port.

I got the computer from my school.   They didn't supply me with DOS disks,
GS/OS disks, or any other disks, except some edutainment software.

> > And at last, i have my Apple //e.  When I turn it on, the power light
just
> > flickers at an approx rate of 2 full on-off blinks per second.  What's
wrong
> > here?
>
> If there are any peripheral cards in your //e, pull them out then try
> turning the machine back on.  If that fixes the problem, put the cards
> back in one-by-one until you can replicate the problem.

I figured out the problem.  It's  a card.  It has a sticker on one of the
ICs that says "SSB-1".  Please tell me that's not a Super Serial card.

> Byron.