Re: ?'s about a IIgs

[drsmooth@baldcom.net (Edhel Iaur)]

rschaefe@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Robert Schaefer) wrote:

>Hi, everyone.  I just picked up a gs (it was too good of a deal to let it
>go by!), and now I have to do something with it.  It's an older one I think,
>Woz Limited Edition, but I don't know the ROM version.  How do I find this
>out, and what one do I want?  it has a RAM card with an Apple copyright on
>it, 1 soldered bank, 3 socket banks, this would be the 1meg memory expansion
>card?

Turn it on, and quickly, either:
1. Look really fast at the screen
2. Take a picture of the screen with a very slow shutterspeed camera,
   and look at the photo
3. Hit Control and that big white key with the triangle on it at the

   same time, and hold 'em down while you look at the screen

>Now, I have a sister in school, and they use macs for most of their
>wordprocessing.  I was wondering, can a gs be taught how to read & write
>mac formatted disks?  How 'bout some of the more popular mac wordprocessor
>formats?  

GS/OS 6.0.1 can read double-density Mac disks.

>Also, will a gs take regular ][+ cards?

Most of 'em.  Among cards that won't work are: RAM cards smaller than
64K (I mean the ones that usually go in slot 0) and ][+ 80 column
cards.
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