Re: Apple's next move (was Apple II just won't die.)

[treiter@comet.net (Toby Reiter)]

In article <4jlhsv$d92@news3.cts.com>, jamess@cts.com (Jim Stafford) wrote:

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>: >
>: >I don't feel like putting up with all the master slave stuff you have to 
>: >use with ide. I recently got a cd-rom drive for my GS. I had it set up 
>: >and running in 15 minutes. A girl I work with just got a ide cd-rom drive
>
>: >for her PC this week-end for her birthday, they still don't have it
>: working.
>
>:     Setting up an IDE CD-ROM on a PC is one of those jobs that's not too
>: difficult if you know what you're doing. Unfortunately for most PC home
>: users, there's enough technical stuff involved to offer opportunities to
>: mess up. Mainly, the problems come from the way PC is set up. On a GS-X,
>: IDE stuff would be easy to install.
>:    
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>And on the GS-X we wouldn't have that well knpow problem of hard drives 
>made by different companies being not compatable with each other too.
>
>Some one else posted that PC users scrapped thier scsi devices for ide 
>devices along time ago. How many Apple II users have? My cd drive and my 
>hard drives are all scsi. What good would it do me if someone upgraded 
>the GS and only had an ide interface? All my programs and data are on 
>scsi. I guess I could get a null modem and transfer them, that would be a 
>lot of fun.
>
>And if someone upgraded the GS and we got an upgrade of gno/me that let 
>us use RAID is there a ide RAID?
>
>The most important thing if we were to get an upgrade would be 
>compatability. I don't think that everyone that has bought zip drives and 
>other scsi devices would be all that happy not being able to use them. I 
>know that I would not buy a computer that does not come with scsi.
>
>I think that that having scsi on a card woul be pretty good as when scsi 
>is changed you could always change the card. Maybe there should be an 
>option to either have scsi or ide when you buy the computer.  
Why not have both!  Many PowerMacs and Pentiums come with support for bot
IDE and SCSI.

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