Re: trying to get an Apple II GS going for fun...

[wizard@direct.ca (Astro)]

Well guess what? I finally got an OS to load!!! And I didn't even
receive my mail-order system 5.0.4 disks yet. Yeah, I downloaded the
System 6.0.1 "system disk" from Apple to my PC. It arrived as a .bin
file. I took it to the Mac I know and put the .bin file on the Mac
desktop. Then I ran it through Stuffit. It transformed [expanded] into
??? a .sea file. [I don't know what a .sea file is.] Undaunted, I ran
the .sea file through a program I downloaded called "ShrinkWrap"
[because I couldn't find the DiskCopy program on the internet in such
short notice... but I think I have a full link to it:
http://www.ifcss.org/ftp-pub/software/mac/utils/ ] where was I... oh
yes... and ShrinkWrap wrote the file to an 800k ProDOS-formatted DSDD
floppy [I finally tracked down a source of DSDD floppies in
Vancouver]... and when I brought the disk home to the IIGS, I popped
it in the drive, powered up the IIGS and !BiNGo! System 6.0.1 loaded.
I spent a little while familiarizing myself with the landscape of the
OS and saw that it was good. Wasn't much I could do yet with no
additional software yet prepared, so I formatted a couple of 5.25"
floppies just for fun ;-)

Meanwhile there were ominous rumblings of a NuLL Modem connection
rolling in the background, like a storm comin' on with a shaft of
sunlight coming down through a gap in the clouds...

Everywhere you look, it's all Science...

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~~~Astro~~~ 
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Vancouver, BC
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