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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
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Subject: Re: SCSI cards
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Date: 12 Oct 90 06:29:57 GMT
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TS8RBOTW@MIAMIU.BITNET writes:

>cards?  Will the Apple High Speed SCSI card and/or the RamFAST SCSI card
>work on a mac?  I'd really like the RamFAST SCSI, but if it won't work on
>the mac, I'll stick with the Apple card.

Neither card will work in a Mac, nor are they needed. Macs have SCSI built
into them. If you get a high end mac, they will be as fast as the RamFast
already.

In fact, if the mac you buy has a properly written SCSI manager (none currently
do) then you will be able to hook the Mac and the GS to the same drive and they
can share it by accessing different partitions (SCSI doesn't know how to keep
you from writing to a partition that somebody else is reading). Note that no
current Mac can do this _safely_ but two DMA SCSI equipped Apple //'s can.
Pisses me off, 'cause I have a third partition on my Q105 that is formatted
for HFS, and to get at it I have to connect it to my roommate's Mac and drag
things to the fileserver.

>Second question:  I just discovered a few IIGSs in the computer lab...
>unfortunately, they're the "Woz edition."  (with Woz' signature, even!)
>Therefore, very little of today's software runs on it.  What I was wondering
>was, is there any kind of upgrade available for this computer?

Of course! Two things might need to be done: Upgrade them to ROM 01 (if it
doesn't say "Rom Version 01" at the bottom of the screen when you reboot
them then it ain't ROM 01), and add memory. I have a ROM 01 GS (not woz edition
however) with 2.25 megs in it and I never run out of memory.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu