Re: Sequential Should (was RamFast?!?!?!?)

["Charles T. 'Dr. Tom' Turley" <gbmaidsf@wco.com>]

I agree with Rubywand completely on the issues of the RamFAST card, for 
public support, bug fixes and update support efforts. It's the only 
hardware that would be required to allow Apple IIGS users have the 
option to actually use the new technology of the SCSI LS-120 drive with 
their IIGS.

If you don't know what the SCSI LS-120 drive is, see URL:

http://www.optera.com/1wsw/gsezine/GS.WorldView/*ARTICLES/

and read about it in the html document - New.A2.SHD.DD.html

Micheal Guitton, who first presented me with the information on the SCSI 
LS-120 drive, contributed and coauthored the above article with me, 
expressed in an email to me - just the other day enlightened me on my 
misconceptions of the needs to allow us to use the SCSI LS-120 drive 
with the following information and clarifications...

"All we need is a SCSI LS-120 drive and a RamFAST. This is laser-servo 
technology -- floptical are a laser servo-based system as well and the 
AE 21MB works fine without any GS/OS specific driver".

If Sequential Systems doesn't make the information available for public
review and assistance with updates for the RamFAST card, this is one
great new technology disk drive that we might all miss out on for the 
IIGS community users needs, should the RamFAST card stop being made 
available, with less bugs and more effective updates.  It's a very 
useful and needed SCSI card - with many possibilities to offer for our 
expansive storage needs in the future.  

With the release and sales of the SCSI LS-120 drive, if the RamFAST card 
is discontinued because of public discontent with its performance and 
Sequential Systems isn't doing all they could do to support it with bug 
fixes and updates, then the IIGS will have lost yet another fantastic 
hardware option, that it otherwise could have available to its users.

Come on Sequential, read the needs of your users and please act in the 
best interest of the RamFAST card and the IIGS!

Cheers,
Tom