13 Aug
2006
13 Aug
'06
7:03 p.m.
On Sunday 13 August 2006 09:47 pm, Teo Zenios wrote:
Hm.
I have one of those, sitting out there in a box, with monitor and two
drives and keyboard (and I don't remember if there's a mouse with it or
not).
Anybody know what that machine will do if I just fire it up? There are,
unfortunately, no disks with it, and I really don't know what to
expect.
Unless you have a hard disk installed inside of some kind it will ask you
for a floppy to boot from (same as an Amiga).
I haven't opened it up to see yet, no place to put it in here. And I'm not
at all familiar with Amiga, either. Most of my experience is with PCs,
pre-PC stuff including lots of CP/M boxes, and pre-Amiga c= stuff.
Was the gs the
65816 box?]
WDC 65C816 @ 1.0 or 2.8MHz
http://oldcomputers.net/appleiigs.html The unit (unless upgraded with a special card) uses
3.5" DD and 5.25" DD
disks. If you have an older 68K Mac there are utilities that will allow you
to make images into usable disks for the IIgs.
No macs around either.
If you have a ROM 3 version of the IIgs and a Mac
serial cable (plus some
software on the Mac side) you can network boot the machine from a Mac.
Hm. Any easy way to tell the ROM version?
http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/the_fairway/index.html
The above link has some images of games you can convert to floppy and boot
from if you just want to test the system out. Since the IIgs uses ADB
keyboards and mice any ADB Mac mouse should work on it. If you have some
RAM expansion cards you can make some GS/OS boot disks for a GUI or use
older Mac II apps and PRODOS disks via the 5.25" drive.
I really have enough going on that I hadn't planned on getting into yet
another kind of machine here, so I was hoping to sell it or otherwise find
someone who wants it. It'd be nice if I could show it doing something, in
that case...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
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