Re: Building the Modern Apple IIGS

[lemonherb1@netscape.net (Herbert Fung)]

Wow, the last time I heard of a project of building a new GS was after
the second day of the Apple Expo West back in '93. A bunch of
attendees went over to James Brooks house, played SNES games,
discussed a new GS, with diagrams drawn on the back of napkins. It was
a fun seeing all the creative excitement of the moment, but it lost
momentum afterwards. Probably due to the lack of funds.

As for alternative methods of modification, I've long been considering
and looking for ways to have an internal hard drive/high density
floppy drive unit integrated in the GS case. The concept I have is to
cut the front off of an AE Vulcan power supply and insert both inside
and cut a slot on the front case of the GS for the floppy disk.

The floppy would either be a SCSI based LS-120 Superdisk drive, TEAC
SCSI floppy drive, or Apple HD floppy drive, with internal cabling to
a RamFAST Rev. D, or Apple High Speed SCSI

The hard drive will probably be an IDE based 1/2 height drive or a
notebook drive, or maybe a 1/2 height SCSI drive.

rummikub32@yahoo.com (Iosaef the Irascable!) wrote in message news:<2caa3404.0302231036.3e1749ec@posting.google.com>...
> supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote in message news:<20030223031340.01967.00000100@mb-ce.aol.com>...
> > 
> > The plan is to take the parts from the Shuttle kit
> > and put them into the case of an Apple IIGS.
> 
> Supertimer,
> 
>      Sounds like an excellent project!  I look forward to seeing your
> system when it's done. :)  Me and a friend in Nacogdoches, TX are
> going the other direction.  He's got excellent hardware skills, so
> he's building both his and my upgraded IIgs machines into PC cases. 
> I've asked him to take plenty of pictures, and I might even get him to
> make a website about it.  I might even get him to let me post a
> preliminary picture on comp.binaries.apple2 :)  Both machines he's
> working on look excellent in the initial stages of construction. :)
> 
> Take Care and keep up the good work!
> ...Josef