17 Dec
1998
17 Dec
'98
8:22 a.m.
The Apple 2 GS could have a hard drive in it? I never
knew that. My school
used to have about 10 of them, and they all ran off of quad-floppy drives,
and some sort of cartridge drive that was used to transfer files to a PC
(You would just pull the cartridge from the Apple, bit it in the drive
connected to the IBM, and run whatever you wanted. I can't remember much
about it (about 6 yrs ago). Does anyone have any info on a drive like this?
It was a black drive that was about the size of a Disk ][, had about a 3/4"
cable running to the back of the computer, and a grounded power cord. The
drive itself weighed about 5-10 lbs, and the cartridge weighed about 2 lbs
(it was metal).
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-Jason Willgruber
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Sounds like a 44 meg syquest cart to me. Apple made SCSI interfaces for the
apple2 series so it would be consistant. My GS has a ramfast SCSI drive
controller and an external hard disk as well as a CDROM. My apple2 E
is floppy based, although since I'm finding myself with a superabundance
of little dinky scsi drives I may splurge and get a controller for it too.
As far as the GS having a hard disk, you can't really unleash a GS's full
potential without one and about 4 megs of ram to go with it. THEN you can
run GSOS 6.0.1, the final version of GSOS, which is very like Mac system 6.
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Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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