Re: IIGS booting options

[witchy <witchy@binarydinosaurs!co!uk>]

You are in an empty room with Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca>.
There's a rock in the middle with "Y2" written on. A hollow voice
says:

>
>
>witchy wrote:
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>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Been reading the GS messages on here and so far nobody's touched on my
>> question.....I've got 2 GS' now, one signed by the man himself (not
>> the 'signature' edition - a proper sig, it's also dedicated to the
>> previous owner) and one boxed one, both of which I'm particularly
>> pleased with.
>> However, I've eventually got my paws on the 5 1/4" drive to go with
>> it, but because my main machine is a PC (sorry) I'm having to rely on
>> 800K images to get me going. Can I use the 800K external floppy from
>> the Mac Plus or do I need the GS 3 1/2" floppy? I've tried making 800K
>> disk images on a Performa 5300 but I get no joy on the IIGS....
>
>Depends on which 800k drive you have with the Mac plus. If the drive has
>an eject button then it'll work with the IIgs. If there's no eject button
>then no
>it won't

Ah - there's my problem, but looking at the oft-repeated ebay auction
for a W@W condition GS with 3 1/2" floppy that one doesn't have an
eject button either.....

Oh well!

cheers
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