Re: Can a GS with dead slots run a Zip or TWGS?

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:

: >    That is assuming the IIgs can even communicate with Smartport
: >devices designed primarily for the Apple IIc (it compatible with
: >the UniDisk 3.5, though I've not heard of anyone connecting up a
: >Smartport hardrive to a GS before). Even if it is possible, you
: >should be concerned about how utterely _slow_ the hardrive will
: >operate--which is not much faster than a 3.5 floppy drive.

: It works -- Sequential Systems techs said so back when they
: still sold it.

It works on a IIgs and on a //e with unidisk card too. When I got mine I
didn't have a //c; I got it to use with my //e because there wasn't a slot
left for a SCSI card but the unidisk card had only one drive attached. One
really cool thing is that it's possible to connect the CT and two unidisks
to the card and use all three with ProDOS 8 2.0.

: >    Sequential Systems sells (or used to) the CT-xx hardrive for
: >the Apple IIc, but they are fairly expensive. Even if you seeked
: >one out used, they are rare items that generally sell for a high
: >cost (much like the IIc LCD screen or battery pack). If had one,
: >I'd certainly not put it to waste on my Apple IIgs. Considering
: >the cost, performance and rarity, I think it is a bad idea. You
: >might as well replace the GS motherboard, it's easy to swap a
: >new one in and from reports, used ones cost as low as US$10.

: Of course it is not worth it, but it is a challenge.  Why do many
: of us use the GS anymore?  For me, it is to do things on it that
: other people say can't be done.  I can do these things easier on
: modern computers, but it is the challenge that "it can be done."

You're taking that idea to absurd lengths. Mitchell is right, buy another
CPU or logic board and scrap the shot one. 

: I won't do it until I run into a CT drive cheap, but when I do, it
: would be fun to see that crippled GS up and running.

You'll be waiting a very long time I suspect. I bought my CT-20c in Dec
'89 when Quality Computers was selling 'em for $629. I got 'em to match 
another mail order place's $560 price. I'm about as likely to let go of
it as I am my III plus, Lisa, LCD screen, superdrive card, or mint 
condition Apple ][ in its original box.
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