Re: Questions about a IIgs....

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"Marlin Bates, IV" <mbates4@gte.net> wrote:

>I just bought a IIgs after seeing them and desiring them for a couple of
>years.  Of course, it has no manuals, no disks and such.

A couple of things from Alltech Electronics and you got it made.

>I have, however, been collecting a few oidds and ends here and there for it so
>I have a monitor (12" RGB) and a couple of floppy drives (3.5/5.25).  However,
>I still have a few questions.....
>
>Inside there are four expansion cards:  
>Memory Expansion (Apple)

Toss this card.  It only holds 1MB.  You need 4MB.  http://www.allelec.com/
Alltech Electronics has a Sirius RAM card that takes 1MB SIMMs you
might still have from an old Mac you don't use anymore.  4MB is what
you need.  The card can take up to 8MB.

>"Firmware ID" Card (third party)

Dunno.

>A "Sandwich" card (??)

Randy says this is an SCSI card.  If so, keep it handy.  You can run
a Macintosh SCSI hard drive from it.

>A Super Serial Card (Apple)

Toss this.  See the two serial ports in the back?  They are basically
the same as Mac serial ports.  They can support AppleTalk at 230kbps
and straight serial (for modems) at 56k, just like on a Mac.  The
Super Serial Card was really for the IIe and earlier Apple II.  It is an
inferior serial port.  Why the previous owner had it was probably due
to the lack of realization of two built in serial ports.  ;-)

>I can guess what the Super Serial card is.  WHat in the blooming heck are the
>rest of these things?!?!?!
>
>Also, how can I create System disks from the Apple web site?  I do have a Mac.
>So, perhaps I could run an emulator?  Let me know. Thanks.

The simplest way is to go to http://www.allelec.com/ Alltech Electronics
and get a Focus hard drive from them for $59.  It includes System 6.0.1
preinstalled, the ability to read HFS disks (good for communicating with
Macintosh) and a library of sharewares and freewares.