Re: This Is my Apple II config. Post a reply and brag about yours.

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

In article itsme <quantum@telis.org> writes...

>First, My IIe which I have used the most and put the most time into:
>
>Apple IIe-Enhanced
[snip]
>Slot2-Ramfast connected to 1 100 meg zip drive, 2 540 meg hard drives, 1
>140 meg hard drive, 1X cd Rom

>
>IIgs-Rom 01
[snip]
>Slot 7 -170 meg Focus Hard Drive

    The storage configuration on both systems caught my eye, simply
because they're in the wrong place! If that were my system, I would
swap them around, putting the Focus inside the Apple IIe and the
RamFAST with large external hardrives and CD-ROM on the Apple IIgs.

    Why? Well for one thing the devices will not be used anywhere near
their full performance capability on the Apple IIe (for example, the
transfer speed on the SCSI drive will be half, or even less than half
what it would be running on the IIgs). Secondly, 1.2+ Gigabytes of
storage on an Apple IIe is absolutely absurd, you would never come
close to filling it up, leaving about 95% of going to waste. You can
quite easily be comfortable with 20, 40 or 60 MB on an Apple IIe
because programs aren't that large and generally, neither are the
data files they create. As for the CD-ROM on an 8-bit Apple II,
I don't think there are even programs to play audio CD's or read
High Sierra formatted discs (of which you'd just be pulling off
generic text data files).

    If you connect the RamFAST with those modern SCSI hardrives up
to the IIgs you'll notice a great speed improvement, not too mention
be more likely to find things to fill up the space (one of those
540 MB drives would be plently of room). Of course there are more
things you could do with the CD-ROM on there as well.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca