Re: New Found IIgs

["John King, Jr." <joki@eskimo.com>]

( I am a little newish to all this .... )

    Alltech sells the FOCUS internal IDE drives. They're great, but supply
may be backed up a little now and then. When I ordered the last one the
card-only kits weren't available, and the ones with the 60 meg drives were
just a little more anyway.
    The drive is set up with a nice set of software for a IIgs. You place it
in slot 7 (if no AppleTalk), set the boot slot, and go.

    SCSI cards are harder to come across, you can get them on ebay or hunt
around. SCSI is more versatile, but slower (least mine is) than a FOCUS. I
believe you need a modified REV A or REV C Apple SCSI, or a High Speed Apple
SCSI, or RAMFAST (fastest?) for the IIgs. There are other names but I don't
know about them. There are still a few old removables around on ebay also. I
have an old SyQuest 44 and it is a prefect size for one ProDos partition and
a 10 meg second partition. You can also format them with Mac HFS for a
larger size (but with fewer diagnostic IIgs tools I guess), and can take
these over to some Mac with a SyQuest and exchange data. Very nice. I have
heard about SCSI scanners and CD-ROM players but I don't know about 'em.

    Another good thing to have is an accelerator. I am trying to stabilize a
Zip GSX and can see the benefits. You will do just fine with a stock IIgs,
but the speed is nice with the GUI and a few games. Sadly these are harder
to find than a SCSI card.

(I paid a lot for mine and I do not  know if I will get it to work reliably.
(sure is fun trying though!) )

"Brad A. Korponay" <bwiebe@escape.ca> wrote in message
news:DUSm5.1421$ak3.15973@news1.mts.net...
> Hello,
>
> I grew up with a IIc and recently began the hunt to aquire one once again
> for the nostalgia of it all. During my hunt my in-laws came across a IIgs
> complete with RGB monitor, 3.5 & 5.25 drives and that amazing little IIgs
> keyboard all for $5.00! Wisely, they scouped it up and gave it to me. :-)
> It has several cards installed, though I've yet to examine them
thoroughly.
> My first thought is to get a hard drive for it. Where to begin? It
requires
> an internal SCSI host adapter or other internal card does it not? I've
heard
> mention that there are internal IDE cards which support 2.5" laptop drives
> as well. Is there a good source for these cards with or without the actual
> hard disk? Anyone willing to sell me one cheap?
>
> Thanks in advance, Brad
>
>