Re: Sick IIGS CMS Combo

[crapr_obenauf@mindspring.com (Rayni Obenauf)]

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>
>     It may be that the most sage advice you received was to blow off
>the CMS card and get Alltech to credit the price toward the purchase of
>a current RamFAST.
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>
>Rubywand

   Thanks for your advice, I'm sure the RamFAST is the best thing on the
market, and I'm kinda surprised that the good people at Alltech would
foist a product on us when they know doesn't work reliably. However, if
this particular host interface hadn't been available at this price, I
probably would have passed on this computer, that is, I would have given
it to charity instead of using it. It was given to me in the first place
and decided to use it for my kids and as a hobby computer only if I could
expand the memory and give it a hard drive for under $100. I already had 1
meg 30 pin simms and small SCSI drives coming outta my ears.
   It's interesting to note that at least one email I received concerned
the same troubles with the RamFAST card. Kinda sounds like the problem
isn't the particular cards, but the lack of understanding of how to design
an interface card in the '86 timeframe. 
   I'm not discounting your experience with the RamFAST card, there were a
number of responses that agreed with you, at least on the position of
ditching the CMS card, and I may either trade in the CMS card for another,
or wish I had. As for now, the computer sitting in it's end location, it's
turned on and properly communicating with the host interface, and most
importantly, my five year old doesn't know the difference. As I said, I
may eventually turn to the RamFAST, and it's worth the option of exploring
with Alltech the possibility of an exchange nearterm, but for now, I (and
my kids) are semi-happy campers. I know, you are saying "how could you put
up with such shit, buying a card that doesn't work". My response is "If it
really didn't work, I'd really be pissed, but if I can get it to meet my
current requirements, I can live with it. Mind you, I've spent the last
year screwing with DOS 3.3, swapping floppies, and the Tan brothers Apple
IIe emulator for the Mac. Did you ever get to see what order the
characters come up during the splash screen. Just try the Tan brothers
emulator on a Mac IIVX.

Thanks again, I appreciate everyones opinion.

Dave

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