Re: New user

[David Miller <justdave@obvious.egl.net>]

In article <3B42929B.BCACC478@klis.com>, Norman Deveau
<norman@klis.com> wrote:

> I was given a ][GS recently. I have a 3.5 and 5.25 drive,
> original ROM, 516M Ram, RGB monitor and ImageWriterII.
> Everything seemed to work but I have very little software.
> I bought ProDOS disks from Byteworks and they do work.
> I find I am unable to make a disk that works with my iMac
> or PPC 6100. The 6100 says it can make a ProDOS 800K disk
> but it doesn't work. I have read that it is possible to 
> transfer files via modem from the Mac to the Apple][ but to
> do that I need a comm program. I need it to be ready to use 
> on a disk. Also some info about what modem to get and how to 
> make it work would be very helpful. If anyone could tell me 
> where to buy software, or otherwise help I would be most grateful.

You might want to check out http://www.a2central.com/

or more specifically:

http://www.a2central.com/stuff/applesoftware/

We have starter disks with some freeware telecom apps, Shrinkit, etc,
on them for $2 each.  (or free for downloading if you can find a way to
unpack them)