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So I also remember that I had two separate cables, and they both looked essentially the same but had different symbols on them. One of them ended up working for the printer and the other didn't. Right now I can only find one cable that fits. I wonder if there is anything I might be missing there.

Yeah I pressed it and it is activated. I remember with the macintosh I had to press select right after sending the print job in order for it to print. Is there any trick like that with the IIGS?

Hi everyone. I have recently taken a renewed interest in the Apple IIGS system I acquired a few years ago. It came with an ImageWriter II printer. I just installed a new color ribbon for it and did the self test, and it works fine. I have printed from this printer before, both on this IIGS as...

I just sold it today to a guy in Kyle, he paid me 80 bucks for it. He seemed very excited to pick it up. I am glad that it went to a fellow vintage mac lover. I had forgotten about this, but I texted him later letting him know that it had an apple video system installed. I hadn't installed the...

It was from a friend of a friend. She was an older lady; her friend had given it to her over ten years ago and she never got around to using it. The only thing she asked of me was to copy off all her friends' personal data from it (and her own personal data from an old windows 98 PC she also had...

I guess 50 bucks would be good enough for me. That is a 50 dollar profit, after all. :P

I have more or less scoured macintosh garden and I wanted to know if anyone is aware if this kind of software even exists. An encyclopedia software (preferably with images) for much older mac, like system 6 and before, so that will run on older macs like the SE, and from floppy disks. Does...

This is a pretty good find. An elderly woman had a couple old computers that she wanted to get rid of, and that included this Power Macintosh 6500 that she apparently had for a really long time but never used. Her friend had given it to her about ten years ago and it has been sitting in her...

Hi all, I am having issues with my  best CRT monitor. Basically it started with random refreshes/zaps, it would happen sporadically while I am using it. But then I started having an issue where there would just be no picture. The light would turn green but the screen would remain black. I know...

This makes me chuckle a little bit, because I remember when I was in high school and Apple started selling these G5s... and at that time 100 for it would be an absolute steal, even with no ram and hd. They were top of the line at the time. I remember the web form where you could build your mac...

I opened up the drive tonight and I believe I have spotted a blown capacitor.

OK, so now I am able to access both 3.5 drives from GS/OS and boot from them as well. However, my 5.25 drive is not working at all. I have tried even plugging just that one in. I had another very rusty looking one lying around, I tried that one and it didn't work either. When I power on the...

I have recently installed and initialized an external mass storage drive for my Apple IIGS and installed System 6.0.1 on it. I had been able to access floppies just fine from within GSOS booted from the hard drive. But I had noticed that the 5.25 wasn't working, and then I noticed that the...

I figured it out. I had to use a SCSI utilities disk (Chinook) in order to properly partition the hard drive. Apparently doing it from my LC III was the wrong thing to do, and Copy II Plus didn't cut it either. Now the installer recognizes my drive just fine.

So I realized that the GSOS system disk does not contain a SCSI driver on it, but the System Tools 1 disk does. Unfortunately the System Tools 1 disk is not bootable, and there is not enough room on the system disk to just copy the driver over. I have tried to create a kind of "frankenstein"...

Apple II High Speed SCSI card

I have set up my SCSI2SD with SCSI ID 6 (needed for the IIGS to recognize it, apparently) and a 30MB drive. Here are my results. When I load Copy II Plus, it recognizes the drive. I can format it from there. There isn't an option to initialize it. I am not entirely sure what that actually means...

Nevermind I figured it out. Turns out you have to eject the copy ii plus disk after it boots up. Then you have an option "disk with format" after you select "copy." This makes a byte-by-byte copy of the disk.

Ok guys this is what I have tried. I loaded system 6.0.1 and then went to the floppy II emu and selected Music Studio 2.0. I ejected the system floppy and then popped in a blank one and initialized/erased it. I dragged the Music2.0 disk to the blank disk and copied it all over. But the thing...

Seven months later, I decided to start playing with the IIGS again. I ordered the gears and fixed the floppy drives (woohoo!) I have a floppy emu and used this to copy 6.0.1 onto physical floppy disks. Now I just need to dig out the old LC III and format a sd card with 32mb image and I should be...