Re: where can I find the OS for gs?

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

"lizards4all" <lizards4all@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:u0S19.2531$nc.200768@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> Hello,
> I picked up an apple2gs from a friend, but there was no software. The
system
> seems to work fine, as far as I can tell, but it wants an OS or boot disk
or
> something. Where can I get one?
> thank you!
>

If you have access to a Mac with a SuperDrive floppy (the ones that suck the
disk in), you can download the disk images from Apple's archives and use
DiskCopy (also a free download from Apple) to transfer the disk images to
real floppies.  The newer Power Macs with manual inject floppy disks don't
work, and of course the new Macs don't have floppies at all.

If someone sends you the disks, be sure to get a comm program and utilities
like Shrinkit, ShrinkitGS, etc so you can start downloading programs from
the net and extracting them.

The faq has lots of useful info, including places that will sell you the
disks:

http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs1START.html

Paul