GS-related questions

[Norby <norby@idir.net>]

Okay.  Finally after all this time I get a hold of some GS hardware!  I
am having some fun now!  I can say I'm pretty knowledgeable about 8-bits
(Got a ][+ and a //c.  //c has 1MB Apple RAM card, 8MHz Zip, Unidisk,
and an old Quark QC10 hard drive!) but am somewhat new to the GS.

Here's what I got:

ROM 3 GS
Apple RAM expansion card
AppleColor RGB Monitor
2 Apple 3.5 drives
1 Apple 5.25 drive

I've also got my Unidisk 3.5 from my //c hooked up.  I'm currently
running system 6.0.1 from diskettes.

My questions:

1)  The RAM card seems to be 1/4 populated, and adds 256k to my standard
1MB.  Can I assume this is a 1MB card when fully populated?  What kind
of chips do I need to get?  Also, assuming this card will only take me
to 2MB, should I instead look into a different RAM card, or are the
chips cheap enough to do both?  (I've got another GS ROM 3 CPU sitting
around, too)

2)  I've read that the GS monitor can not be used on Macs.  Can it be
used on a //c?

3)  Concerning hard drives, how good are the IDE cards from ///SH?  I
have some spare IDE drives laying around, but I have not been able to
find nice external cases to mount them in.  Or should I just go SCSI and
try to find an old Mac external drive?  It seems that a RAMFast is the
way to go with SCSI, does it have any problems in a machine with 8MB of
RAM?  (In case I decide to go all out!)  The FAQ alluded to a possible
problem...

4)  Accelerators?  What's the best way to go?

5)  Anyone know where I can get a localtalk card for a PC?  (I've got
both NT and NetWare running here at home, both will do AFP)

6)  On the shareware archives, some programs are split into Program.1
Program.2 etc.  I must be missing something basic here.  (I'm plenty
familiar with 8-bit Shrinkit, binscii, BinaryII, etc.)

I've been out of the Apple ][ world for a couple years now and was very
excited to hear news about GNO/ME and Marinetti.  And me being the 8-bit
guy that I was, I love the "new" graphics and sound on the GS! ;-)

Thanks for putting up with my rambling...

Daniel Ratzlaff (Norby)
norby@idir.net