Re: PC to GS serial xfer progress report

["bw" <bwegher@hotmail.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> The second 800KB 3.5" drive is a nice addition, but a 5.25" drive will be 
> more useful for many of the disk images available on the web.  If you
> want to run GSOS, the GUI-based IIgs operating system, you will need more 
> RAM (as you are trying to do) and will want a hard disk system of some 
> kind.  (I'd recommend Rich Dreher's Compact Flash For Apple card.)
> Once you have a hard drive, you won't need another 3.5" drive, except as a 
> spare.

Thnx for thoughtful reply. I'm still reading the FAQs. Wanted to avoid 5.25, 
but understand the necessity now that I've been monitoring eBay for a few 
days.

> You cannot use 1 Mbit chips with the Apple IIgs Memory Expansion card, but 
> you can fill up the empty sockets with 41256's and have base memory plus 
> 1MB.  This is not a large memory for GSOS, but is _plenty_ for standalone 
> games and applications.

I'll go with 4MB right away & save the original card as is.

> 4MB cards come up on eBay pretty regularly (usually in the $40-$80 range), 
> or Bill Garber (here on csa2) may be able to build one for you.
>
> -michael
>
> New Applesoft BASIC interface for NadaNet networking!
> Home page:  http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

Thnx again.  I am interested in the "story" of the Apple, now I have better 
access.

Brent Wegher