Re: Apple II SCSI cards

[who@where.what (Bart)]

>I doubt that anyone would seriously suggest using a ProFile on an Apple
>II, if there was _any_ alternative available.

Oh I donno David.  I have a couple of ProFILE drives.  One I use on an Apple 
/// with the /// flavor of Profile card. Works great.  Slow, (...turn on drive, 
listen to sound like washing  machine "No Honey that was just one of my 
computers!"  go brew cup of coffee,  watch the evening news...humm...is it spun 
up yet?  oh it is...well then turn ON the Apple ///)  but great.  BUT if I 
could find it I would LOVE to get an Apple II ProFILE card (the /// card will 
not work in a ][) so then I could easily pass data to-from these drives/ 
systems.  Also I just would LOVE to add the ProFILE driver to my GS just to see 
this old workhorse on the desktop.

...but then, I am kinda weird ;-)
 
>
>The ProFile is pretty awful by comparison with later hard drives - it
>requires a proprietary controller card, is only 5 or 10 MB, is slow as
>molasses, and it cannot be reformatted unless you have an Apple /// with
>the Apple /// ProFile controller card, plus special firmware (and
>piggyback CPU) to installed in the ProFile drive, plus the software to
>control it.

Yeah...ain't it cool?  ;)

>About its only unique feature is Apple's "Pascal ProFile Manager", which
>allows the sharing of the drive between ProDOS and Pascal, with the
>ability to create multiple logical Pascal volumes.

Anyone know of a copy of this hanging around? or is this built into the 
firmware and I just don't know it?

>Apple released two SCSI cards for the Apple II.
>....  
>There were also several third party SCSI cards, the most popular of
>which was the RamFast, 

Don't forget the CMS!    I am one of the few who actually think highly of the 
CMS offering here.  (1990 Rev C CMS that is.  the  A and B versions are not too 
useful)

Also what ever happened to the Chynook and I know there were others back in the 
day? Vulcan/ Sider/ Focus and other such aside.  Does anyone know of a good 
source on info concerning the OTHER early SCSI hard drive cards? 

-Bart
Keeper of the Network from Heck