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 …

Apple //c as a Dumb Terminal to my Mac mini

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

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…

would u consider setting it up so we can dial in to it with telnet for the purpose of software development?

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 …

AFAIK, they were SuperDisk drives - the 120MB floptical things - and wouldn't read the 800/720k disks.

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?

My two cents on this machine... I get a feeling John Sculley wanted to transition Apple into a one-computer company from the day he took over. When Jobs was ousted there were thre…

Apple did come out with the Apple III and that was not II compatible, the Mac was not realy compatible with the Lisa either (nor the II line). Click to expand... Not that is ma…

The Mark Twain was a last hurrah from the Apple II division to keep the II competitive. Apple stayed with Steve Jobs vision and saw the future in the Mac and didn't care about the …

The Apple II line could have kept going for a while if Apple wanted to support the IIgs at all. Apple did come out with the Apple III and that was not II compatible, the Mac was n…

Except that the Twain came long after the 128k. It is also quite possible that Apple wasn't in the least bit worried about the Twain competing with the Mac. The original IIgs mod…

try booting with only one three point five inch drive connected.

I have a feeling that if it was finished, the specs might have been on par with or even possibly exceeded the specs of the 128K. That could explain why it was canned.

Yea, a HD (even SCSI) makes GS/OS much nicer to run. I have a transwarp GS in one of my IIgs and that speeds things up quite a bit (that machine has the REV C SCSI card and an 8MB …

Was the Mark Twain canned because it might compete with the Mac? I imagine that with an 2 megs of RAM, an 8Mhz processor and a built-in HDD it might actually run GS/OS tolerably...…

Well, that site has been around for more than a decade. Back then the pictures were quite good.

Thanks. Its a shame there aren't better quality pictures available.

http://www.apple2.org should have info on the machine, as well as a few snapshots of the Twain on vacation.

Does anyone have any photos or other information about this machine? I know they never went beyond the prototype stage but it would be fun to see more pictures or information about…

... Can't put a price on the nostalgia we get from using old Apple gear ... I just enjoy using the older stuff sometimes, and do everything I can to speed them up and make them mor…

Juat a warniing about cleaning disks and Apple 5.25 drives(and any other other single sided 5.25 drives you may find on classic computers) Using a cleaning disk one one of thse ca…

Hi all and many thanks for the replies! Actually I still didn't take the time to further investigate those drives. And I just put the IIgs back on its shelf this morning, to make …

The G3/400 uprade is probably the second best thing that can happen to any PB1400, just after being equipped with a TFT screen. If asked to spend 200 bucks to pimp a 1400c, I woul…