//gs advice needed

[jheath@HALCYON.COM (Jay S. Heath)]

Greetings from a Seattle based Macintosh user.  I need some information and
advice from the //gs gurus who read this newsgroup.

My sister recently acquired an Apple //gs (ROM 01, I think), a 3.5" and a
5.25" drive, color monitor, 1MB RAM, 80 column display, extended keyboard,
mouse, accessories.  She lacks a hard disk.  She is using System 4 but when
she gets a HD I will install System 6 for her.

I know that she needs a SCSI card and a SCSI drive. Until the first time I
looked in this newsgroup I assumed that she needs an external hard drive.
But I saw an ad in .marketplace for a //gs with an internal drive.  So, if
this is true, the question is, what kind of internal drive is installable
in a //gs?  Physical size? Brackets required? Extra cooling needed?
Anything else I need to know?  Any serious drawbacks to an internal drive
in a //gs?

Is there a maximum drive size (MB) that //gs can access? Is there a
consensus on what is a good size? She is in college and will be using the
drive mostly for WP and humanities classes subjects. No graphics or other
major disk hogs. I was thinking 60-80MB as a good size.

And...Is there a place for a used //gs SCSI card? I know where to get a new
one here in Seattle, but only at full list. 

Also, ROM.  Is an upgrade possible? Practical?

I appreciate your assistance.  Please reply directly to jheath@halcyon.com.

Thanks,

jheath@halcyon.com
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