How to network to a IIgs?

[thefcpguy]

Does anyone have a practical way to move data over to an Apple IIgs? I have my system set up at my office and I have access to various PPC and Intel Macs as well as a fast ethernet LAN. I've played around with an old Farallon device that converts an ethernet connection to a Localtalk port, but File Sharing on the GS tends to flake out after a few minutes (it seems Apple didn't put a lot of resources into improving network connectivity on the GS in its twilight days).

What are other people using to get all those great disk images onto older Apples?

Cheers,
Bill

[Mark Frischknecht]

I use a good old serial transfer to move disk-images/data to my //gs I zip large numbers of files with low compresion and use hyper terminal on my Windows Machine and Proterm on the iigs side. I also used a CDA called Quickport II to boost the baud rate and you also need a null modem cable to connect the computers.

Quickport can be found here --> http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/Utils/
The version I use is Quickport II v 1.02

[thefcpguy]

Great info. Thanks!

[Wayne Bibbens]

here's what we do. install an external hard drive to your IIGS. You'll need the scsi card. Use system 6.x. THEN, disconnect the hd, install to your PPC. Click and drag. when finished, reinstall it on the IIGS.

you can also sneakernet, you can also connect your IIGS directly to the PPC using a workstation card in the IIGS.

and you can local talk using the apple cables.

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[Wayne Bibbens]

Also, if you want us to build you a HD for your IIGS so that you can do this, just contact us. About $100 + ship.

Wayne

[thefcpguy]

Very helpful advice, Wayne. I'll take a look at your site. A SCSI card could do the trick for me- I have a spare SCSI Zip drive and a G4 tower with a built-in Zip, so that would be my path of least resistance at this point.

Cheers,
Bill

[Wayne Bibbens]

no drivers for the zip. Hard Drive almost a must!

try the zip, wonder what will happen... certainly not the blue screen of blah, blah,, blah.

it's an apple, try it!

Wayne

[thefcpguy]

If memory serves, the IIgs *should* treat it as a SCSI volume (if the correct drivers are installed).

Cheers,
Bill

[Twilight_Rodent]

This is really not net working, but it is the way I transfer and store my programs, disk images and files. Formatt the zip cart on the mac HFS standard journa. No OS 9 driver. Then you are good to go. You have to have GS/OS on the IIgs with the HFS FSTs installed. Now both you can transfer stuff either way. Eventually I they will make them on to CDs.
You can not run alot of stuff off an HFS disk or partiotn on the IIgs. But you can store it there for a move either way.

[JustSomeGuy]

Yep, zip drives work fine on IIgs machines - I've built boot volumes with them. I use Rich Dreher's CFFA card for booting 99.9% of the time, though. Using spinning platters makes no sense in this day and age. :-) But using a ZIP for transfer back and forth might be quick, since your G4 has one already. I have an extra ZIP drive if you want to try. Your biggest hurdle will be getting a SCSI card for the GS - they're expensive, assuming you can find them. I don't recall if you have one already...

[thefcpguy]

I don't have a SCSI card, and they ARE pricey. Yikes!

[Mark Frischknecht]

just remember hfs on a //GS can get corrupted.

[Twilight_Rodent]

Yes, if it is over 100 megs, there is a patch for GS/OS so you patch it once, and it is done. if you formatted it on the Mac, I think it should all right.