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Re: I have a IIgs. So now what?
Michael Black wrote:
> David Empson (dempson@actrix.gen.nz) writes:
>> Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom> wrote:
>>
>>> I'll have to dig the computer out of the shed one day. It's in a special
>>> padded carrybag with spaces for the keyboard and mouse. I seem to recall
>>> that it may also have the OS built into ROM.
>>
>> That's basically true for all Mac models prior to the iMac.
>>
> But the Classic had the whole shebang in ROM. So if you pressed
> the right keys while starting up, you didn't need the OS on floppy or
> the hard drive. The only Mac that did that, and I suspect they realized
> the flaw. No easy way to upgrade it, which is likely why they didn't
> use that method before, or after.
>
> If you didn't press the right key combination, you needed the floppy or
> hard drive to get the rest of the operating system.
>
A well. So it was my classic then. I still love that little computer. I got
it from a TAFE that was getting rid of them I think. It has an ample 20MB
hard drive with MS Word, MS and Claris Works, Stuffit and a few other
utilities on it to facilitate the shuffling of disk images to my 512k, or
plus or whatever it was. Incidentally I have a Mac+ that isn't here with
4MB of RAM. I'd love to get my hands on that again. It was slow but ran
lots of things.
I'm afraid to power it up these days though. Both its RAM and harddrive are
very frail. The RAM seems to have a borderline working area around where
the floppy controller resides, and the harddrive doesn't always work. If it
works I have a SCSI apple 200 odd MB hard drive in the shed. It's be like
my 286 Toshiba laptop that went from a 40MB hard drive to 230MB.
Anyway, this strayed OT.
I do wish I could have a ROM OS in the IIGS like on the classic. Don't say
AppleSoft :)
Tristan.
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