Re: Apple II rescue... seriously OT (but back on topic)

["Christopher D. Heer" <chris-heer.nospam@home.com.nospam>]

Dennis Jenkins <djenkins@usb.com> wrote in message
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[ snip my explanation of Netware for Mac ]

> I stand corrected. :)

And I stand exposed as a Netware geek.  My children won't be able to look at
me.

> > B) Put one of those LanceGS (or whatever they are) ethernet
> >    cards in your IIgs.  Do those run Appletalk?  Never
> >    used one myself.

> Nope, Apple's support for AppleTalk on the IIgs is hard-wired to the
> Localtalk port.  Maybe we can change that someday if we can convince
> Apple to open source GS/OS.

Well, that just figures.  Still.  IP support ain't bad.  If I had anything
remotely approaching free time, I'd write a little hack to make FTP servers
seem like network volumes.  Then again, never having programmed on the IIgs
(my original Apple tour of duty ended before the release of the IIgs),
perhaps that isn't feasable.

> > Personally, I hope there's a //e workstation card in all this stuff I
got at
> > the rescue; I would *love* to network a //e.

> Good luck!  I wish that everyone who went got what they are after.  I
> picked up a 'Liron' card, and I hope to install it tonight.

What's that when it's at home?

> I will now
> try to drive 4 3.5" drives, 2 5.25" drives and 2 40M SCSI drives from my
> IIgs.  We'll see!

Very cool.

> If I would have been thinking when I was there I would have taken many
> more of the IO cards.  At the time it seemed like they were almost all
> Grappler cards (how are these different from a regular parallel io card
> anyway?),

Had some nice built-in graphics features.  With a Grappler+ you could do
screen dumps of hires graphics to Epson (and Epson-esque) printers.

> SSC and disk II cards.  I probably passed up a second sight
> card or another SCSI card...

I grabbed several boxes of the I/O cards.  I will have to sift through them.
I *did* find a box for an Apple //e High Speed SCSI card, complete with
manuals and disks, but no card itself.  Hope the card is in the boxes
somewhere.

If not, and if you're the one who got the card, let me know.

> Two days ago I re-examined my new collection to see what else I had
> grabbed.  I also picked up 2 white 3.5" drives (not platinum).  They
> were almost mint.  I later learned that these are the fabled "uni disk
> drives" that can plug into the IIc!

Yeah I got a few of those too.

> I plan to put up a small web page on my personal web site about my
> finds.  It would be cool to see a full list of what others found.  Maybe
> we could have a comprehensive list of everything "rescued".  Wow, I
> still can't get over the amount of stuff at that house....  And I was
> told by the lady there that I was not the first to arrive.

What a great idea!  I will do that too.  Likely be a week or two; I got over
three vanloads, so it'll take forever.  Towards the end I was taking
anything and everything.  I could probably fence my yard with Grapplers.

Yeah, apparently another trip had been made the week prior.  Wish I'd've
heard about it then; I could've gotten more.  Ah well.  If wishes were
fishes and all that.

Just for laughs I'll go outside and take a digital pic of the "pile" and
post it.  It's not to be believed.

--chris