Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU!MQUINN%UTCVM From: MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: APPLE HIGH SPEED SCSI Vs Ramfast Message-ID: <9010260425.AA18482@apple.com> Date: 26 Oct 90 04:10:34 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 27 On Thu, 25 Oct 90 18:39:45 GMT Rick Fincher said: > >If you want to use it like a floppy be advised that letting one >cartridge spin down, removing it, inserting the new cartridge, letting >it spin up to speed takes about a minute and a half. If you don't have >gobs of ram it is slower than backing up to floppies. If you do have ---------------------------------- DEFINITELY!!!! I had to back up one of my cartridges. I didn't have enough floppies, so I thought I'd be clever and backup to another cartridge, well, THREE DAYS later, I finally finished. I had to leave the computer on when I got tired, went to bed or went to work or school and finish whenever I came back and hope to GOD that the power hadn't gone out while I was gone. I don't recommend doing this unless you have TWO drives to copy cartridges. I had to swap disks at least a thousand times (no joke!)! It only copies a few hundred Kilobytes at a time when you only have 1.2megs (and I used to think a meg was alot of memory!).. Anyway, when each swap takes a minute to a minute and a half, don't count on using the computer for the next three days. >Rick Fincher >rnf@catt.ncsu.edu ____________________________________________________________________ | | | | This is your brain... | BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm | | This is your brain on drugs... | pro-line: | | This is your brain on whole wheat.| mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com | |____________________________________|_______________________________|