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

[jamess@cts.com (Jim Stafford)]

RUBYWAND (rubywand@aol.com) wrote:
: In article <4jadmi$hgs@news3.cts.com>, jamess@cts.com (Jim Stafford)
: writes:

: >
: >You lost me here!! Give me scsi anyday over that ide crap! If you check 
: >out the PC world scsi is chatching on. Those new cdr drives are all scsi,
: at 
: >least all I've seen. That is the one big thing that keeeps me from using 
: >this 486 that was given to me no scsi! A good scsi card for it costs 
: >about $300.00. I have to much to buy for my GS right now.

:     Granted, SCSI is still very popular on Venus. Earther PC users began
: scrapping their old SCSI and pseudo-SCSI CD-ROM drives some months ago.
: The price you quote for a SCSI interface is one reason. All of the new,
: high performance, low price CD-ROM drives (e.g. 8x CD-ROM for $159.95) 
: are IDE.

:    "Too much to buy for my GS ...."  Me, too. If the GS-X goes to the new
: IDE interface, we will be able to grom for-PC CD-ROM drives and Hard Disks
: at less than half of what we spend now.


:   

: Rubywand


I was talking about CD-R (recorable) drives I haven't seen one that isn't 
scsi yet, but they could be out there. I subscribe to a lot of PC 
magazines and it seems a lot of people are finding out scsi is better, 
wich should bring down prices. I plan on useing linux on my 486 and the 
best way to go is scsi. 

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. 
Maybe someone would come out with a ide card for ya.

jamess