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Da Penguin Senior Member USA 1094 Posts	Posted - 06 Feb 2003 : 14:59:28 FINALLY! Me and my friends finally got the 4 apple ][e s and the one gs out of the school! Each one came with a dotmatrix printer, and two 5.25" floppy drives each! The only software we got with them was chemistry stuff, except for the lil gem of appleworks(original) 2 and 3! There is nothing inside of these things that are that special, inspite of them being chem machines. Oh well, they are still cool and I can't wait to mess around with them! ~The Penguin \| Want free 68kmla email? Drop me a line \| \| Captain, Intelligence Operations / Space Cowboy \| \| 68khotline.no-ip.org <-- Official Hotline Server \|
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 06 Feb 2003 : 15:24:57 Congrats on the ][][][][. There's nothing like the fun of learning new things about old machines. And they've got cool dual floppies from back when floppies were floppy. wistfully thinks of 8" floppies, CPM, punch cards, and the smell of paper tape in the morning G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent & User of the Hockey Puck Mouse of Radial Symmetry
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 07 Feb 2003 : 09:17:34 I'm thinking... if you have AppleShare something or other on an old mac... cant you network boot those Apple II computers? maybe it was something a GX could do to the others... or a mac to a GS but that would be cool... especially if you had a mac with lots of HDD space... store all apple II stuff on a Q7oo or something Official 68k videographer
The Lightning Stalker Full Member USA 747 Posts	Posted - 08 Feb 2003 : 18:15:29 What is that CPM anyway? Some people say it's an OS and others say it's for microcontrollers.
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 08 Feb 2003 : 19:06:21 hehehe isn't that C/PM right? Control program for Microcomputers... it was an "OS" I believe... it cost alot too! even more than jag, and more than XP pro even Official 68k videographer
The Lightning Stalker Full Member USA 747 Posts	Posted - 09 Feb 2003 : 09:34:40 Mmm. Was it like UNIX or DOS or something, or was it it's own unique thing altogether?
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 09 Feb 2003 : 09:55:10 CP/M (Control Program for Microcomputers) was an old floppy-based command line OS from back in the late 70s that ran on microcomputers based on the Intel 8080, Zilog Z80, etc. Both DOS and TOS "borrowed" from C/PM. G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent & User of the Hockey Puck Mouse of Radial Symmetry
The Lightning Stalker Full Member USA 747 Posts	Posted - 09 Feb 2003 : 10:03:01 So it's got commands like DIR and COPY? BTW, what's TOS? Sorry, I didn't come around until the days of System 7 and DOS 5.0 - although I actually started on old Apple //e's
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 09 Feb 2003 : 11:15:34 quote: So it's got commands like DIR and COPY? BTW, what's TOS? Sorry, I didn't come around until the days of System 7 and DOS 5.0 - although I actually started on old Apple //e's The commands are similar, but not identical. See: http://museum.sysun.com/museum/cpmtab.html TOS is used on Atari computers. G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent & User of the Hockey Puck Mouse of Radial Symmetry
Clinton Full Member USA 700 Posts	Posted - 10 Feb 2003 : 12:06:44 My family had a MAJORLY droolworthy computer in the 80s, DUAL 8" floppies, a DOT MATRIX PRINTER, and get this......a TEN MEGABYTE HARD DRIVE!!!! seriously expensive machine, somewhere to the tune of around ten grand, for a machine that weighed around 75lbs, and sounded like a learjet on takeoff run when it started. I remember hitting the power switch... the lights would dim out CCC Lieutennant Commander (Pronounced Leftennant) 68k Macs Rescued: 2 Pluses, a 512KE, a Classic II, a Q650, a Q660AV, and a MacII Contraband rescued: Power Computing PowerBase 200, a PM 8600/300, and a PM8500/180 Apple //s rescued: Apple //e
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 10 Feb 2003 : 15:28:29 i know one ][ command: run menu lol -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 10 Feb 2003 : 15:34:15 I can work my way around pretty well in DOS... especially newer versions that have programs and junk... I'm thinking about backing up the whole PS/1 to something (over parallel or disks)then installing a newer version like 5.0 or 6.22 with windows 3.11... I like dos 5 and 6 better... Official 68k videographer
The Lightning Stalker Full Member USA 747 Posts	Posted - 10 Feb 2003 : 16:38:58 Unbelievable how far computing has come, and how advanced UNIX was for its time.
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 21 Feb 2003 : 06:57:01 quote: I'm thinking... if you have AppleShare something or other on an old mac... cant you network boot those Apple II computers? maybe it was something a GX could do to the others... or a mac to a GS but that would be cool... especially if you had a mac with lots of HDD space... store all apple II stuff on a Q7oo or something Official 68k videographer IIRC, you can netboot a IIgs from a Mac, but not a standard ][ or ][e. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.� - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
Unknown_K Full Member USA 602 Posts	Posted - 18 Apr 2003 : 20:42:58 How do you boot a IIgs from a mac? Would be cool to do that since a scsi card that would allow a HD are too dam expensive
II2II Junior Member Canada 115 Posts	Posted - 19 Apr 2003 : 10:08:32 quote: How do you boot a IIgs from a mac? You need AppleShare File Server version 2.x or 3.x on an old Mac. IIRC, 2.x requires System 6 and a dedicated machine while 3.x is System 7 friendly. How much memory is in the IIgs and do you have 3.5" drives? II2II Intelligence officer in training.
Unknown_K Full Member USA 602 Posts	Posted - 19 Apr 2003 : 19:26:27 My IIgs has both 3.5" and 5.25" drive, and a 1mb apple ram expansion (1.25mb total)
SlowMac New Member USA 70 Posts	Posted - 19 Apr 2003 : 20:37:47 I remember back in school working with Apple ][e s . I use to type in the command flash ( I think that's right ) Then all the text you would type after that would flash. It drove my teachers crazy. I would also drive them nuts by keeping a magnet in my pocket. Every time they would give me a floppy to put in I would put it near my pants pocket then put it in the drive. They just couldn't understand how there floppies kept messing up. The best prank I pulled though was sticking a magnet on the bottom of the computer lab's floppy storage box. I don't think they ever figured that one out. I know, I know. I was a bad boy back then. I like it slow
II2II Junior Member Canada 115 Posts	Posted - 19 Apr 2003 : 21:22:17 quote: My IIgs has both 3.5" and 5.25" drive, and a 1mb apple ram expansion (1.25mb total) You have enough to boot GS/OS! You can get the disk images from a2central.com (be sure to look at the latest KFest announcement ) and either install from floppy. It is possible to stuff enough on a single diskette to grab files from any Macintosh with file sharing enabled. Booting without a floppy is a bit more complex and requires their commercial AppleShare software. II2II Intelligence officer in training.
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 26 Apr 2003 : 03:35:57 I think it was 3.x that could do it... if someone could find a few hundred IIgs I could start the largest NetBooting project EVER!!! I'd probably use the IIsi Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide

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