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From: risner@ms.uky.edu (Shad Fax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple II High-Speed SCSI Card Released
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Date: 21 Mar 90 08:32:29 GMT
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High speed SCSI....

1meg/sec......cool, but its not new....for a long time the Vulcan
100meg internal has been running at 950+/-k per second.  Actual test
speeds.  The posting said up to a meg a sec.  This is not a flame on
the New SCSI, but more of a pump for the Vulcan 100.  I have used it
and its FAST.  

  I love the idea of a "no increase in price" killer SCSI card.  Sys 6
will be great (hey, ANY improvement over Sys 5 is to be respected.
Sys 5 show what the IIgs COULD be)  Hypercard GS.  Rumor of a ROM 04.
Looks to me like Apple is developing for the IIgs even if it is
ashamed of it.  I am going to use all the money I make over the summer
break to buy myself a NEW computer.  If that happens to be a IIgs that
compares to or betters an Amiga, then it will be a IIgs (my hopes...)
If the ROM 04 (due in sept? was it? I will wait until mid-october) is
as good as the Amiga, then I will stick with Apple II.  If not its off
to Amiga land.  NO FLAMES please.  If the IIgs doesn't match up to the
Amiga now, then I don't think it can live more than maybe a year more.
Many people said what does an Educantional/Home/Hobbyist computer need
to be an Amiga killer?  Because if it is it has a much better chance
to survive for another 6-8 years....(my opinion.  By that time
computers will be so advanced/cheap that why stay with the old?)


Apple is supporting the II, now why don't you (Apple) tell the world?

 
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