Re: Input into Apple IIe

[lacoss@cello.gina.calstate.edu (LA County Outdoor Science School)]

nkelly@pro-palmtree.cts.com (Nicholas Kelly) writes:
> 
> However I also want to one up them before the decision for this money comes
> down. I have read the documentation for Publish It and it says that the
> program can accept Super Hi-res IIGS graphics and will print them with
> various level of gray on a laserprinter. I am working on the laserprinter
> part but I need to know, is there, or was there a way to get IIGS quality
> photographic input into a IIe? Could I use a scanner, did they sell some
> sort of video input thing that could snap photos off videotape or anything.
> 
> The quality on screen does not have to be that good. What is important is
> that it keeps the higher number of colors associated with the GS and
> allows them to go to Publish It.

An even better way to get high quality images into PublishIt is to have 
them saved as Encapsulated Postscript format (EPS).  That way you could 
have extremely high-quality graphics that were scanned on a Mac or PC go 
right into your IIe and print out great on your LaserWriter.  IIgs 
graphics, while much better than IIe stuff, are not up to industry 
standards today. 

Also, please be aware that PublishIt will only print to the LaserWriter, 
LaserWriter Plus, and LaserWriter II family (nt, ntx, etc).  It WILL NOT 
work with newer LaserWriters.

> 
> Question number 2 is my workaround in the event there is no solution to
> number 1. I was just given an Apple 800k 3 1/2 inch disk drive. It will go
> into the regular disk drive controller slot but the computer won't
> recognize it. Do I need a special card for the Apple II to use that drive.
> I could then use my Mac at home to input the pictures, save them in Prodos
> and IIGS format and use them on the IIe. by bringing them in via the 3 1/2
> inch disk drive.

There are 3 ways that I know about to use a 3.5 drive on a IIe, all of 
which require an interface card.

1.	Get a UniDisk 3.5 Drive and the interface card designed for it (Liron)

2.	Get a used Central Point Universal Disk Controller card which 
will allow you to use many different drives, including the Apple 3.5 Drive.

3.	Get a SuperDrive card, which will allow you to hook up either 
800k or FDHD drives to it.

4.	Just thought of another one.  If your Mac has a FDHD drive 
(1.4M), you could use a floptical drive hooked up to a SCSI card.

Greg
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