14 Mar
1998
14 Mar
'98
4:54 p.m.
John Rollins wrote:
>I just picked up an Apple IIGS without the keyboard.
>Can I use a MAC keyboard on it?
>Also it was connected to an Apple IIe via a super serial port on the GS and
>an I/O controller on the IIe side. Is that some sort of "Networking"?
There
>was no disk drive attached to the IIe.
You'll also want to check which ROM version it
has, ROM 01 was the first,
usually found in the Woz cases, then ROM 2 and then on to the most recent
version, ROM 03. ROM 01 supposedly has some problems and should be
upgraded, I'm not sure about ROM 2. It will tell you which version when you
turn the computer on.
Actually, there is no ROM 2 gs. There is the ROM 0 (most Woz's were this
originally) which is pretty useless, except in //e mode. Apple offered,
at one time, a free upgrade to ROM 1.
ROM 1 is the first "usable" ROM.
Apple then skipped "ROM 2" and went to ROM 3, the third released
version. This is apparently the preferred ROM to have.
<<<John>>
(who swants to find a //gs period... :-)