Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!bu.edu!bucsf.bu.edu!nagendra From: nagendra@bucsf.bu.edu (nagendra mishr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: The Apple IIf Message-ID: Date: 23 Feb 90 17:40:32 GMT References: <900222.14492460.054933@UWEC.CP6> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Boston University Lines: 28 In-reply-to: S707503@UWEC.BITNET's message of 22 Feb 90 20:49:00 GMT One thing I think you are all forgeting the iif needs a good internal fan. Seems trivial, but I'd hate to have to get rid of my kensington and look for another fan and surge system. Making it a portable would also be nice. give it the a batarry backup rom disk like the Tandy's. I know the Tandy's really suck, but the idea of DOS on rom is a good idea. Booting from a rom disk would probably eliminate needing a second floppy drive. Here's an idea. I don't know how it would far in applicativity, but how about somehow having a configure option on the system disk which you would let you tell the system exactly what you wanted to have installed in the system. Once this is done, the system copies the memory image onto disk. This way, when you boot up, you the system fast loads the memory image into memory and you're up and running in a very short amount of time. I read in the specs of the 3.5 diskdrive, that it is capibable of transfering info at a rate of about 60K per second. I'm not sure about how well the computer can respond to this kind of speed, but maybe it can be optimized for faster loading. I don't want any flames, but let's try to be constructive here. If the guys at Apple want, they can really put out a good functional system. Showing that there is still room for concerete imporvement without much risk will get them going in bettering our situation. nagendra