Re: Help with my IIgs

["Michael Wicklund" <tbogard1@home.com>]

Do you have Appleworks GS?

Al Stramiello wrote in message ...
><please reply via e-mail to stramiello_w@acadmain.mercer.edu>
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>Ok, I'm just sitting down to get my IIgs up and running (I've been playing
>with my overclocked celeron, and I feel like returning to the good-old-days
>for a while, and seeing what I can do to fix up my GS).
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>I've got a few questions.
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>I want to be able to transfer software to my ROM-01 IIgs. It's got a 40mb
>SCSI HDD, but no modem. How do I transfer things to it from my PC? I've
>heard of null-modem approaches, but how?
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>All the software I have for the GS in the way of OS and Comm suites is
>System 6.0 (doesn't say .01 or .02... I don't know if it's either, or
>earlier).
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>Is there anyone who can send me disks for 6.0.2 and a communications
program
>that runs under GS/OS? I have shrink it, but I have no way of communicating
>between my PC and GS via null modem, because 1) I don't have the cable
>diagrams, and 2) I don't have a communications suite for the IIgs. I'm
>completely willing to pay for the cost of the blanks and shipping and such.
>I really want this puppy up and running.
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>Second, my HDD is having an annoying problem under 6.0. Whenever I boot
into
>GS/OS it immediately begins asking me to rename/eject 'extra disks', more
>specifically, it seems to be seeing multiple copies of the two partitions
on
>the HDD. It sees disks 2.1,2.2,3.1,3.2 and so on all the way up to
>SCSI-7.02.
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>Any way to get rid of that? Is it an OS problem, or something with the HDD
>finally going bad? The drive works perfectly once I tell it to eject all
the
>duplicates...
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>My main concern is getting those disks mailed to me (6.0.2, and a IIgs
>communications program), along with the wiring/setup instructions for
>running a null-modem from PII to IIgs.
>
>Again, I will gladly compensate monetarily.
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>Reply to stramiello_w@acadmain.mercer.edu
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