Re: IIgs, ShrinkIt 3.4, and a single 3.5" drive

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Justin Scott" <djnospam@impakt.net> wrote in message
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> Is there anything I can do besides wait for my 2nd 3.5" drive to show up?
I
> have a couple 800k mac drives (inside their macs) out in the garage, and
read
> in the FAQs where it discusses replacing the mechanism of the IIgs drive
with
> a Mac drive... but nothing about cobbling a Mac mechanism onto the chain
(that
> I could see) without a cable and case....  Think I could cobble something
> together?

You will have to wait I'm afraid.  Do you have a 5.25" drive available?
I did mine initially from the 5.25 to the 3.5 drive.

> This is a ROM 01 board, no extra RAM, so the ramdisk idea is dead too.
> Especially since it seems that Shrink-It 3.4 has no concept of a /RAM
prefix.

No extra RAM?  You will need it for 16 bit apps.

> Again guys and gals, I really appreciate you assistance getting me up to
speed
> w/ the IIgs. :)
>


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