Re: Ram Fast

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> writes...

>Jonathan Epstein writes ...
>> 
>> What would be a reasonable price for a Ram Fast SCSI and 4meg of GS RAM?
> 
>     For a good 4MB RAM card (like GS-RAM III) 

    I would question that being a "good" card. The GS-RAM III is an 
Applied Engineering memory board, and they were infamous for selling 
boards that were not DMA compatible (despite claims that they were).

>and the current RamFAST with the f ROM, 

    I would recommend getting one with the 3.01e firmware revision,
while the built-in tape backup utility was not fully functional, it
was a much more stable and reliable ROM. I would even go to the 
trouble of "downgrading" to the older "e" revision.

>something around $200 would be a reasonable price.

    US$200 will buy you a _brand-new_ RamFAST SCSI board and 4 MB
memory card. If your talking about used prices, which I assume you
are (since you mention the long defunct GS-RAM III) then your way
off in pricing. I'd cut the price in half, and then some when you
consider the Apple II market.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca