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Newbie lost in front of a IIgs — #22

It's an Apple II SCSI card, of which I just the found the manual here. But according to that manual, I have to use software provided with the SCSI peripheral to format and partitio…
68kMLA Peripherals by superpantoufle Wed, 18 Mar 2009 - 18:23

Newbie lost in front of a IIgs — #21

...the full GS/OS install is intented to be made on an external hard disk, right? Click to expand... Right. Assuming my SCSI card works (which I haven't tried), will it …
68kMLA Peripherals by david__schmidt Wed, 18 Mar 2009 - 16:13

Newbie lost in front of a IIgs — #20

Thanks! Next question (I haven't tried yet, just wondering): the full GS/OS install is intented to be made on an external hard disk, right? Assuming my SCSI card works (which I ha…
68kMLA Peripherals by superpantoufle Wed, 18 Mar 2009 - 11:57

Newbie lost in front of a IIgs — #19

stock IIgs didn't have a fan, right? Click to expand... Right. Can I safely remove it? Click to expand... Probably. If someone put a fan in there, it was probably be…
68kMLA Peripherals by Dog Cow Tue, 17 Mar 2009 - 16:28

Newbie lost in front of a IIgs — #18

I do have only a 2 Mb Ram card. I also have what I think is a SCSI card, not installed as of yet. So it should be ok, I hope. Thanks!
68kMLA Peripherals by superpantoufle Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 20:42

Newbie lost in front of a IIgs — #17

According to pictures of the IIgs innards I found on the net, stock IIgs didn't have a fan, right? Click to expand... Right. You can safely remove it if you don't have any unn…
68kMLA Peripherals by david__schmidt Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 20:15

Newbie lost in front of a IIgs — #16

Ok, it's time for some feed-back! I finally went further with cleaning those drives, since I recently got a nice Apple ][ Europlus and I needed the IIgs to be working in order to …
68kMLA Peripherals by superpantoufle Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 19:14

Access a G3 via an Apple II terminal — #5

Status report: Made some changes to the G3's config file in regards to the modem port. In the GS, I used the monitor to do a 2 (Control-K) Return. Also tried PR#2. Both seem to ge…
68kMLA Peripherals by Dog Cow Fri, 13 Mar 2009 - 17:30

Access a G3 via an Apple II terminal — #4

Apple //c as a Dumb Terminal to my Mac mini Click to expand... I read that this morning, but had doubts about it, because the guy used a Mac mini without serial ports, whereas I …
68kMLA Peripherals by Dog Cow Fri, 13 Mar 2009 - 00:10

Access a G3 via an Apple II terminal — #2

It's marvellous what this new fangled google thing will do... http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-system-mac-software/2758-using-getty-serial-port-consoles.html
68kMLA Peripherals by porter Thu, 12 Mar 2009 - 23:14

Access a G3 via an Apple II terminal — #1

Some you might remember the desktop G3 I got awhile ago. Here's the setup: 1.) Desktop G3 with OS 10.2 and the usual printer/modem serial ports 2.) An Apple IIgs with the same se…
68kMLA Peripherals by Dog Cow Thu, 12 Mar 2009 - 20:21

Save This LISA! — #7

would u consider setting it up so we can dial in to it with telnet for the purpose of software development?
68kMLA Peripherals by barana Tue, 10 Mar 2009 - 20:33

Dying PB1400cs — #3

Eef, if there was a hole blown in the lobo, sounds like the poor little thing has been put out to pasture. I'd nose around for another lobo for it to see if you can breathe some li…
68kMLA Hardware by MultiFinder Sat, 7 Mar 2009 - 01:26

Dying PB1400cs — #2

I hate to say it, but it sounds like that one's past doing too much with, apart from stripping for parts...I'd look around for another 1400, working, and keep that one for parts. A…
68kMLA Hardware by LCGuy Thu, 5 Mar 2009 - 12:42

Lombard/Pismo VST Exp. Bay Floppy — #3

Not sure you got an answer to your question, so here's my shot at it: In addition to 120MB superfloppies, those drives will also read 1.44MB disks. Sadly, 800K (or 720K) disks are …
68kMLA Peripherals by tomlee59 Thu, 5 Mar 2009 - 01:16

Powerbook 500 with PowerPC — #11

Hi! i have one of those powerbooks 500 with a nupower PPC 630e at 117mhz, and like you said... that's a really solid notebook, the innards are made of steel! 8-o , very impressiv…
68kMLA Hardware by dading Wed, 4 Mar 2009 - 13:38

Lombard/Pismo VST Exp. Bay Floppy — #2

AFAIK, they were SuperDisk drives - the 120MB floptical things - and wouldn't read the 800/720k disks.
68kMLA Peripherals by Franklinstein Tue, 3 Mar 2009 - 20:26

Dying PB1400cs — #1

hi!, this is my first post and i really need your help, some days ago i bought from internet a pb1400 almost mind but it say "doesn't turn on" on the place, anyway.. just for $30 b…
68kMLA Hardware by dading Tue, 3 Mar 2009 - 19:58

Lombard/Pismo VST Exp. Bay Floppy — #1

Anybody got a VST expansion bay floppy drive used in their Lombard or Pismo? If so, will it handle 800K disks, or just 1.44MB?
68kMLA Peripherals by Mac128 Tue, 3 Mar 2009 - 04:19

eMac not turning on — #2

Nvm, talked to derekat(Idk if any of you remember him but he used to post here before the crash) and he said try it without the hard drive, tried that, it worked, tried different j…
68kMLA Hardware by Torbar Mon, 2 Mar 2009 - 00:28

eMac not turning on — #1

It turned on before but the hard drive was dead, swapped the hard drive, tried turning it on but it doesn't do anything. I hear the CRT have a slightly high pitch noise, so it's g…
68kMLA Hardware by Torbar Sun, 1 Mar 2009 - 19:39

How do soft-switches work? — #8

Here's a question for which I have not found the answer: The Apple II, as you should know, has some soft-switches, memory locations which cause some setting to change. My question …
68kMLA Hardware by porter Fri, 27 Feb 2009 - 19:44

How do soft-switches work? — #7

I downloaded that PDF a few months ago but haven't read it yet. Maybe I should do that. Click to expand... It's a tough slog, especially if it's the first time through. But S…
68kMLA Hardware by david__schmidt Fri, 27 Feb 2009 - 18:12

How do soft-switches work? — #6

A handful of 74LS* chips. Sather's "Understanding the Apple II" would probably help here:http://www.scribd.com/doc/201423/Understanding-the-Apple-II-by-Jim-Sather-1983Quality-Soft…
68kMLA Hardware by Dog Cow Fri, 27 Feb 2009 - 17:59
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