Today, even though I’m trying to downsize my collection, I ended up picking up an apple IIgs that is a ROM 01 machine and looked to have a box full of accessories. The main reason I got it was because it had the original Apple desktop bus keyboard, which I’ve always wanted to add to my keyboard collection.
When I arrived to pick it up, the man who is selling, it had it in a box, and I thought I was just gonna take the computer out of the box, but he said the box was actually designed specifically to transport a IIgs that he had had since he had the machine original, and worked in the telecom industry. It fit the IIgs, the Apple color monitor, the 5.25 inch and 3.5 inch floppy drives, and the keyboard. Looks to be made by a company in Columbus, Ohio, but he said he was living in California at the time.
The other good news is that it had some very cool cars and accessories. Inside was a 4MB GS Juice memory expansion card. It also has a ZipGS GSX accelerator card. Looks like it plugs into an expansion slot and then a ribbon cable plugs into the cpu socket.
In the box of accessories there was a ZipDrive hard drive card and anSonicBlaster sound card. As well as a cool handheld scanner and interface card called a Vitesse Quickie.
Now the bad news. While the seller showed a picture of it booting to a IIgs blue boot screen, I have not had any luck getting it to show anything but a weird black and white pattern on the screen.
It doesn’t seem like doing a reset does anything helpful. Any ideas on where I need to start? I verified the dip switches were correct on the accelerator card. And I tried with and without the memory expansion card. I haven’t tested the PSU voltages yet but will do so. I also can’t test without the accelerator because I don’t have the original CPU.
Appreciate any advice y’all can give. I’ll try to take some better pictures of the case when I get the chance.
When I arrived to pick it up, the man who is selling, it had it in a box, and I thought I was just gonna take the computer out of the box, but he said the box was actually designed specifically to transport a IIgs that he had had since he had the machine original, and worked in the telecom industry. It fit the IIgs, the Apple color monitor, the 5.25 inch and 3.5 inch floppy drives, and the keyboard. Looks to be made by a company in Columbus, Ohio, but he said he was living in California at the time.
The other good news is that it had some very cool cars and accessories. Inside was a 4MB GS Juice memory expansion card. It also has a ZipGS GSX accelerator card. Looks like it plugs into an expansion slot and then a ribbon cable plugs into the cpu socket.
In the box of accessories there was a ZipDrive hard drive card and anSonicBlaster sound card. As well as a cool handheld scanner and interface card called a Vitesse Quickie.
Now the bad news. While the seller showed a picture of it booting to a IIgs blue boot screen, I have not had any luck getting it to show anything but a weird black and white pattern on the screen.
It doesn’t seem like doing a reset does anything helpful. Any ideas on where I need to start? I verified the dip switches were correct on the accelerator card. And I tried with and without the memory expansion card. I haven’t tested the PSU voltages yet but will do so. I also can’t test without the accelerator because I don’t have the original CPU.
Appreciate any advice y’all can give. I’ll try to take some better pictures of the case when I get the chance.
