Re: Waht would be the ideal set-up of a Mac G3 for a IIgs peripheral?

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca>]

eeastman@apple2.com wrote:
> 
> Recently I acquired a Mac G3 that I would like to use as a IIgs
> peripheral.  It is a 266Mhz, has 64M of ram, a 4 G HD, CDrom and a disk
> that like my 800k ProDOS boot disk, and a built in ethernet port and a
> USB card has been added to one of the slots.  THe video card is a Mach
> 64 idf that makes any difference at all.
> 
> My goal is to use this computer to aid my IIgs, but also to do other
> tasks I desire.  (The IIgs stuff takes precidence because I actually
> have a Windows box for otehr stuff.)  I want to use Appletalk to
> transfer files to/from the internet to the IIgs.  I want to create disk
> images.  I want to use the Mac to burn CDs as I have an old external 2x
> SCSI CD burner.  I also want to hook a USB scanner to it.  I have a 20G
> SCSI HD (not mac) that I would like to get running in/on there as well.
> I would like for it to serve web pages and serve FTP if possible.  I
> want it all.
> 
> So what should I be running on this computer?  I am looking for the
> 'ideal' OS version and software to make it the best IIgs periferal
> around, plus some.
> 
> Thankx,
> Ed

I have that same G3. I've had it AppleTalked to my IIgs via the serial 
ports. If you have Localtalk Bridge on the Mac The IIgs can see the hard 
drives of computers connected to the Mac via ethernet, if they're setup 
for it. I don't have ethernet on the IIgs so unfortunately I've never 
tried that
   
With a CD burner I've used Toast to burn CDs in various formats 
including ProDOS. Having the 6.0.1 installation disks on CD has 
proved handy. Also a great way to make a bootable backup of an 
Apple II hard drive.

Your G3 has two ide busses and one SCSI buss. The original HD & CD 
are ide. You should also have a couple of empty drive bays so you can 
easily add a couple of internal hard drives be they SCSI or ide.

Which OS is best? Amongst other things the floppy drive doesn't 
function under OSX so you're better off under an earlier OS. You'd 
also need a minimum of 128 mb of RAM for OSX. While it will work, you're 
really tight for RAM under OS9. Given the low price of RAM right 
now I'd suggest you pick up some and go with OS9. While that G3 
originally came with PC66 RAM you can also use PC100 or PC133 RAM in 
it. Also as memory increases OS9 loads more of the System into RAM 
for faster response so with more RAM the computer feels faster.

	Wayne