I think you mean an Apple IIGS, right? A fully-loaded Apple IIGS is somewhere in the class of a 68020 or 68030 Mac, depending on what software you are using. It really is a nice system .
Did yours come with a hard drive? When your GS boots up, does it say "ROM03" or "ROM1"? Pop the top and see what is in the slots, reading from left (slot0) to right (slot7) and say what is in there, that will give a good picture of capabilities and you can decide if you want to spend the time/$ to make it "worthy". As soon as it boots, hit Crtl-OpenApple-Esc. That will get you into the hardware control panel. See if the clock battery is still holding. You will also want to get in there late for slot assignments. I guess you also need to decide what you want to do with it. If you want to do full wordproc/spreadsheet/print with a nice GUI, you will need the latest (OS 6.0.something). You can get by with a minimal system with a single 3.5" floppy, but I'd recommend at least 2 of them. If you want to do kids educational stuff, you can get by with a single 3.5" and a 5.25" - these things are built like tanks so they made great kid computers. The IIGS has a composite monitor port in the back (decent color, fair/poor text), and a IIGS-specific RGB port (excellent color, excellent text). The IIGS RGB might be a hard find. Souping up a IIGS all the way IIRC would entail doing something like this: 1 3.5" 800k drive 1 3.5" 1440k drive (aka SuperDrive) 1-2 5.25" drives Hard drive (external SCSI or internal HardCard) (partition into 32mb GS/OS and make the rest HFS) RAMFast SCSI card (if you get an external SCSI drive) 4mb of RAM TransWarpGS accellerator Second Sight video card (lets you use "PC" VGA monitors) PC-Transporter (if you want to get fancy, it a PC/XT on a card) Getting the IIGS on the 'net is not easy but it can be done - http://www.apple2.org/marinetti/index.html http://www.omninet.net.au/~khowe/arachnid/index.html http://www.sheppyware.net/products/a2/gsaim/ http://www.btinternet.com/~ewannop/sp.html http://sis.gwlink.net/ The best FAQ out there - http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs2CONTENT.html Basic Info - http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=71 -----Original Message----- From: "R. A. Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vintage Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:19:30 -0500 Subject: Apple IIg > Vintage Maccers, > I thought I heard some talk about an Apple > IIg > on the list the other day, but as I did not have one at the time, I did > not > pay much attention. I picked one up in a liquidation yesterday and am > wondering if it is worth sprucing up? It seems to have a long ribbon > cable > of some sort hanging out of it and I think that the external Floppy > drive > that was in the same batch goes with it. (do they hook up via a > parallel > looking port?) What are the monitor requirements? > -- > All the Best, > > R.A. Cantrell > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Visit R.A.'s Old Mac (mostly) Stuff @ > > http://tinyurl.com/ubkw > > > -- > Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | > -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
