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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: The Future of the Apple II, and misc. questions
Message-ID: <9585@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 4 Feb 89 07:28:39 GMT
References: <458@madnix.UUCP> <1164@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1164@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> asd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:
>2) Other than the fact that the Apple SCSI card can partition from software,
>   a nice feature I think, what makes it incompatible with the standard
>   SCSI?

Mostly, using Apple's own flavor of connectors instead of the standard.

>5) Has anybody seen the Byte article that shows a Mac SE/30 being as fast if
>   not faster than a Mac IIx?

No, but I've visually verified that the SE/30 is pretty damn fast.

>  Hmmm, Apple did that with the IIc+ and IIgs,
>   hmm, wonder what's up their sleeves.....

Nothing -- obviously they have to speed up their processors as time
goes on.

>6) TO KEITH OR WHOEVER AT APPLE:  Drop the old 800K line of 3.5 drives and
>   start cranking out those 1.44M drives!!!!!

I don't think that's enough improvement over 800K to be worth the hassle.
The new 4MB version (Toshiba, e.g.) would make more sense.  In any case,
the new drives had better be able to read existing 800K disks!