Re: Apple IIgs

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article mdragon@eagle.ptialaska.net writes...

>  Umm, if you are accesing the internet by a Wintel, it is near impossible 
>to get the GS/OS on to the Apple IIgs.

    Not quite. If you hapeen to have MFM disk capabilities on your 
Apple IIgs (i.e. SuperDrive and controller, BlueDisk, Floptical,
PC-Transporter, Zip drive) then you can quite easily download the 
compressed archives onto an MS-DOS disk and read it on the Apple 
side. With the SuperDrive controller currently available again
and IOmega Zip drives being affordable, this is less of a rarity
these days.

    Of course you can always do a null-modem cable set up between
your Apple IIgs and PC to transfer the archives that way as well.

>You need access to a Mac or tough shit, you don't get it on there.
>Try having a friend with a Mac get it for you.

    Sorry to burst your bubble but a Macintosh is not an absolute
requirement as some might believe. I manage to transfer data back
and forth between my Pentium and Apple IIgs quite well, and I own
not a single Macintosh (I do plan to find a Mac in future to play
with, but not because it is essential to my Apple II's).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca