I see most of these questions have been answered already, so I'll skip to the ones that might need further clarification. Jon Bettencourt wrote: > How can I hook up a simple network between the IIgs and a Mac Plus so that > the IIgs can use the hard drive on the Mac Plus? Do I need a ProDOS boot > disk or something to do that (I don't have one)? You need to be running System 6.0.1 to do this, and it needs to be set up to include the software required to enable AppleTalk support and access to the server. It is possible to do this from a 3.5" drive, but rather tricky, because you can't fit all the required system software as well as the actually useful stuff (like the Finder) on a single disk. It is much easier if you get a hard drive for the IIgs (a Focus is by far the cheapest option now, unless you can get a second hand SCSI hard drive and card). You can then use AppleTalk to exchange files between the IIgs and Mac (easier than doing the floppy shuffle). You can't access the file server on a IIgs if you have booted into ProDOS-8. You have to boot into GS/OS to load the AppleTalk support software. (You can then run ProDOS-8 applications from GS/OS, and they will be able to access the server, as long as the server's shared folder or hard drive has a name which is compatible with ProDOS naming limitations.) > Do I need to format something on the hard drive as ProDOS? Do I need to > completely reinstall the MacOS on the Mac Plus and use System 7.5 with PC > Exchange? No. The only requirement on the Mac side is that you have System 7 or later, with File Sharing enabled, with an appropriate account created in Users & Groups, and sharing set up as you prefer (exactly the same as sharing for another Mac). > I tried connecting my IIgs and my other Mac (a Quadra 700) together with > AppleTalk. I got the Quadra to file share, but the IIgs didn't do anything > (I did have Slot 1, Slot 7, and StartUp set to AppleTalk on the IIgs). It sounds like you have a ROM 3 IIgs. To use AppleTalk on this model, you should have slot 1 set to AppleTalk, but leave slot 7 set to Your Card, and the startup slot set to Scan. The "Startup Slot: AppleTalk" option is only useful if you are running the full AppleShare server software on a Macintosh, with Apple II support included. This is only available for AppleShare 2.0 and 3.0, not later versions. (AppleShare is rather expensive.) The "AppleTalk" setting for slot 7 is only required for running some old software which assumes IIgs AppleTalk support is in slot 7 (like in the original model of the IIgs). Enabling this if you don't need it will just waste an extra slot. > I did it with PhoneNet connectors. Maybe I should use a regular printer > cable instead.... That would have behaved exactly the same. As with two Macs, you can use a direct serial cable for a simple two station AppleTalk network between a IIgs and Mac. You must use PhoneNet or LocalTalk drop boxes and cables (with appropriate termination) if you want to connect more than two devices, but it will also work for two. > I heard somebody tried to connect a Mac Plus hard drive to the floppy > port, and didn't get it to work because the floppy port doesn't support > it. Shortly after, I saw a post that said someone had successfully > connected a HD20 (???) to the IIgs's floppy port. I don't remember seeing anything about that. (I see Supertimer mentioned the original version of the Universal Disk Controller card.) Even if it did work, the HD20 would be so slow that it would be painful to use (about the same speed as a floppy drive, or an AppleTalk network to a Mac which has a SCSI drive). Get a Focus card. It will be a much nicer solution. -- David Empson dempson@actrix.gen.nz Snail mail: P O Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand