Re: Apple IIGS, got one free today, need some help, please

[tdiaz@coyote.csusm.edu (Tony Diaz)]

Erik Kloeppel (lurch@eskimo.com) wrote:
> In article <3kav5a$ld2@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>, jdeeley@calvin.stemnet.nf.ca
> (Julie A. Deeley) wrote:

> > there a few years ago. The teacher said that after a power outage the
> > computer quit working, and asked the janitor to throw it out.

...and these are the people that are teaching our young? Please...

> > When I plugged everything in it made a noise, the screen said "Check
> > Startup Device", and a little mac symbol goes back and forth across the
> > screen.

Mac Symbol!! See, we all said they should have just renamed it
"Macintosh Computer, Inc"... 

> > 2. Can I use any of it's components on my current mac, (p-mac 6100/60)
> > and is there any good reason to (ie. the keyboard as a spare?)

A better use would be to find some nice kid who would never get a computer
and wants to learn to program... they will have a blast with it! :)

> > 4. Is the OS available from an ftp site, say, support.apple.com?
> > 
> I believe so, as indicated earllier. 
> > 
> > Email replies or posts are welcome, any info appreciated, especially if
> > somebody is using a IIGS.

Arn't there BinHex'ed Apple Disk Copy 800K Disk Images on
ftp.support.apple.com? If so, all that would be required is Stuffit
Deluxe, (or the BinHex4 Application & Stuffit Expander), and Apple DiskCopy
4.2 are all that is required to unpack System 6.0.1. Allthough that IIgs
probably doesn't have enough memory to run it.

> I have a PowerMac with a Laser printer and two IIGSs connected via
> appletalk.  It's the cat's meow.

I have three IIgss's, a Centris 610, MacinCrash IIci & LaserWriter all
networked... oh and lets not forget the //e!

>Your mac, if it's running system 7.1 or later, can format and write to
>ProDOS disks.  download the relevent software (6 disks) to your mac and
>write to 800K


Now this brings up another topic :) IT probably should be in it's own thread.

Is it just me, or does the ProDOS File System translator attach a resource
fork to everything it touches that does not allready contain one? Makes it
kinda useless... for 8 bit files anyway...

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