Re: GS newbie questions

[Howe Family <khowe@omninet.net.au>]

In article <39C77D63.17929CBE@boeing.com>, Ron Slaminko 
<ronald.slaminko@boeing.com> wrote:

> Howe Family wrote:
> *snip* 
> > Point a web browser to
> > http://www.educate.net.au/~apple2/manuals/index.html. I've gone to some
> > effort to put the manual for the GS onto the net (with permission from
> > Apple), just for people like yourself.
> > 
> Excellent!  Thanks!

You are welcome, glad to know they're coming in useful.

> > The drives are pretty old, perhaps they need a clean? They should
> > certainly work. What software are your trying, and was exactly happens?
> 
> I did clean the drives, and ran basic functionality tests
> (read,write,verify,format) all of which worked fine.  

Just wondering how you did this, since you are unable to boot anything?

When I try to boot
> from the 5&1/4, the drive light comes on and it makes that sorta
> grinding noise that I assume is a seek to the 1st track, then nothing. 
> The screen says "check startup device" or something similar.  The disks
> are a motley collection of things that came with the system - some
> commercial, some not.  Those that say anything on the label say they are
> for 128K Apple II series machines or 128K IIc or IIe or something
> similar.  They are not GS specific programs, but I thought the GS would
> boot itself as a IIe if that's what it found in the disk drive.
> 

Yes it should boot //e programs. The disks could be bad, they're all 
well beyond their expected life by now. Can you get a copy of the OS 
from the net and try that? (Need a Mac to achieve this at present.)

> *snip*
> I've got ROM 01

Sounds like a good find.

Hope this is some help

Kim Howe