On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:14:57 -0400 "Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When your GS boots up, does it say "ROM03" or "ROM1"? As R.A. asked about monitors, I'm guessing he doesn't have one, and so can't see what the computer displays when turned on. I think there's a place on the motherboard that would say, though. > Pop the top and see what is in the slots, reading from left (slot0) to > right (slot7) and say what is in there, The IIgs has slots 1-7 plus a memory slot to the right of slot 7 (looking from the front). You might be thinking of a IIe. > 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. Finding a working IIgs monitor is getting difficult. And because the IIgs's sync rate is below what nearly any Mac or VGA monitor can go down to, there aren't many other options. Steve mentioned a Second Sight, which is the only solution for hooking up a VGA monitor, but these are very rare and will likely be costly, if the person knows what he has. (I just sold mine and I'm embarrased to say what the bidding went up to.) > Hard drive (external SCSI or internal HardCard) > (partition into 32mb GS/OS and make the rest HFS) I would make a few GS partitions, as the HFS driver had the occasional problem with large partitions, so I never trust anything important to it. Plus, older (ProDOS 8) software can't see the HFS volume). > RAMFast SCSI card (if you get an external SCSI drive) Or Apple High-Speed SCSI card (might be more common and less expensive, and I found them less fussy to use, though the real hackers like the RAMFast). > 4mb of RAM Can go to 8MB. > TransWarpGS accellerator Or ZipGS, but these too fetch a lot of money. > PC-Transporter (if you want to get fancy, it a PC/XT on a card) Now why ruin a perfectly good computer like that! :-) My synopsis: I'm a big fan of the IIgs, and I still use mine (a "Woz", from very early on), but the computers and add-ons are becoming strangely popular now, and are fetching sometimes ridiculously high prices. Going by recent eBay sales and what I sold some of my parts for, my system would easily have fetched $1000. And yet I had a Centris 610 here that was faster, with more memory, bigger hard drive, and better video, and I couldn't give it away! Go figure! I guess there's just something special about the classics. -- Michael -- 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
