Re: reviving an Apple IIGS...

[Krishna Sadasivam <kms007@gmail.com>]

I should also note that the RamFAST utility appears to lock up from
time to time when I am in it. (I'm holding the 'zero' key to access
the onboard RamFAST utilities. I will add that my hard drive now
appears to boot into my System 6.0.1 partition (albeit very slow...) -
(it may have taken some time for it to 'warm up', being dormant for
the better part of a decade). It freezes after the thermometer.

I need to check if the ZipGS card is functioning or if the machine is
crawling at 1MHz...

The adventure continues.

-K

On Jul 13, 8:39 pm, Krishna  Sadasivam <kms...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Powered up the IIGS and now I'm seeing the following error $0201: RAM
> Disk Full or Not Enough Memory. I have a 4MB Harris SIMMs card and a
> RamFAST SCSI card rev E. Not sure what to further troubleshoot....
>
> -K
>
> On Jul 13, 8:12 pm, Krishna  Sadasivam <kms...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It's been many, many moons since I last powered up my Apple IIGS (12
> > years to be exact). I used to frequent comp.sys.apple2 back in the
> > heyday of Usenet - but since life got in the way, and I put the IIGS
> > in storage.
>
> > Until now.
>
> > I have brought my IIGS out of retirement (it's a Woz edition ROM1 with
> > 4MB of RAM, ZipGS 8MHz 32K cache and a Second Sight VGA board. I
> > connected the IIGS up to a VGA LCD display and was able to see the
> > power-up screen. However, I don't have any IIGS software with me, and
> > the SCSI (80Meg) hard drive that was also tucked away in storage
> > appears to no longer work.
>
> > I'm thinking about getting a CFFA card that'll boot into System 6.0.1,
> > but haven't yet made the plunge.
>
> > Looking forward to reconnecting with fellow Apple II users. It's been
> > a long time, and I'm glad to be back.