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

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.

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.

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 …

did u have any joy?

keep it. in the meantime, this community should be able to convince someone to do a port of browser6. you could be our lead beta tester. - ppl in retro communities with lisa's tend…

Yes. It's quite a common sight in the old Apple/Mac world. Moof! Rainbow dogcow comes from one of the color Stylewriter page setup dialog boxes.

dogcow, did u know ur picture looks like the ftype.xxx icons in GS/OS?

It was a nice port from what I recall. Click to expand... Yes, and I hope he updates it sometime. Click to expand... read the readme , he says he hit a wall and couldn't g…

That's GTE (not General Telephone and Electric) http://www.iigs.dreamhost.com/gte/gte.html

It was a nice port from what I recall. Click to expand... Yes, and I hope he updates it sometime. Click to expand... read the readme , he says he hit a wall and couldn't g…