Re: Apple //c+ questions...

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

"CHRIS MORSE" <chris@invalid.net> wrote
>
> But when I saw the FAQ for the Apple //e card, which is here:
> http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/lc_card_faq.html
>
> I said "I have got to get me one of these!".. Picked one up for about
> $20 on eBay and now a Mac Performa for another $25.  I'll have the Mac
> in my hands this weekend.  But I am going to have to seek help on
> how/where to get and install the Mac OS from scratch.  I'd like to be
> able to rebuild the Mac OS on demand (like when swapping in a new SCSI
> hard drive.)
>

You can d/l some Mac OS's free from Apple.  They are disk images. You may be
able to create them with a PC, since there is PC software for  formatting
and writing to Mac floppies.  Years ago I used a shareware program called
Macette.  There are probably better ones now.

Your Performa has an external SCSI port, so you could have several hard
disks with different OS's. Connect the one you want to use.


> I have an Apple //c and a //c+.  I'll probably get a IIgs later this
> year, after I'm settled into my new house.

Yeah, the IIgs is very nice to have. They are very cheap, fast, and make it
a lot easier to work with archives because you can have two 800K floppies,
or even a hard disk.
-Paul