Re: New to the IIgs, help would be good

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

"Mr. Carp" writes ...
> 
> I just bought 2 Apple IIgs-es off of Ebay. They come with nothing but
> the internals (no extra cards) and a power cord. I have an ADB keyboard
> & mouse and I can get my hads on some free floppy drives. I am new to
> the world of in-depth Apple II use (we played educational games in
> elementary school--that is the limit of my knowledge). I was wondering
> if the IIgs came standard with a hard drive and if not, what options do
> I have for connecting one (SCSI, IDE, other)? Also, what kind of moniter
> connection do they have (RGB, RCA)? What kind of RAM do they use...I
> have several 72-pin SIMS laying around, can I use them, if not, where do
> I get RAM for the IIgs?
> 
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     You've gotten quite a lot of good info. A good on-line resource is the
newsgroup FAQs. See ...

web pages-  http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs5MAINHALL.html#013
pure text-  ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Faqs/
            ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.sys.apple2/



Rubywand