Re: Looking for Dr. John Matthews - Referance to Ohio Kache Systems Multi-Kache Card

["mr. brad" <mrbrad@ll.net>]

 From what I've been told there are two options for the board.  One is an
> upgrade from 256k to 1 Meg.  The other is a SCSI controller.



i've 2 of the oks cards...one i tried worked right out of the box i got if 
off ebay...i think i have the orig manual which was the same size shape as 
the card itself
and another one also..manual that is..little lights blinking disk caching 
away...that one only works with floppies

i also heard there was a disk with the oks card..but never found such ..it 
may have been some kinda diagnostic disk for the oks card....thou..as far as 
i know the info is not disk related it is setup with an eprom built in like 
ramfast scsi...

the other card i have not tested or don't remember doing so..but is has the 
scsi card daughter board.  i also THINK these used to work with SIDER hard 
drives...but it has been so long i forget..but i think it was a big deal if 
i remember right you could speed up your 10mb sider....not sure what version 
did that

there was also a still later version with an external box/arrangement with 
diff scsi ports etc i also think it had printer/buffer options etc...you can 
see it in some old A+/incider Ads

anyway...just so you know i guess

brad
former sysop lost gonzo bbs




"James Noyes" <nntp@retrogeeks.com> wrote in message 
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>
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:55:59 -0400, Henry S. Courbis wrote:
> <<<SNIP>>>
>> Anyone else with code/manuals/links/important notes regarding the
>> Multi-Kache Card please contact me.
>>
>> I'm also looking for owners of the card.  Please email me/post a good
>> picture or scan of the face and back of the card.
>>
>> Other information I have collected thus far: (please add/correct as seen
>> fit)
>> From what I've been told there are two options for the board.  One is an
>> upgrade from 256k to 1 Meg.  The other is a SCSI controller.  Along with 
>> the
>> SCSI controller option is a small Firmware board that fits in to an
>> available Slot that allows two additional Volumes to be recognized in
>> ProDOS.
>>
>> There were two updates available for the card.  One allowed the CPU on 
>> the
>> board to operate at 10 MHz.  The other replaced the Firmware and a PAL to
>> allow the board to work better in the IIgs with a TransWarp GS 
>> installed -
>> something about a DMA fix?
>>
>> Any reviews of pros/cons from owners would also be appreciated.
>>
>
> Don't know if it's of much help, but I actually possess a *working* OKS
> Multi-Kache, and I have the original side-stapled manual as well.  I don't
> recall if there was a disk of software, but if there was, I should have
> it tucked away, too.
>
> To this day I kick myself for how the deal went down when I bought it,
> though. The seller had the SCSI add-on board with it, but I was *very*
> strapped for cash, and had already purchased a RamFast SCSI, so I patently
> refused to pay him the additional money he wanted for the SCSI
> daughterboard, and I didn't get it. Somewhere out there, there's a SCSI
> daughterboard with no OKS MK to go with it.
> <*kicks self yet again*>
>
> As for the board, while it has some quirks in how it works, and takes a
> little getting used to, it was quite the perfect touch to complete my
> "Ultimate //e".  It will run regular Disk II drives, Unidisk 3.5 drives,
> and Apple 3.5 Drives, all from a single slot - which was important for me.
> The caching features were very cool to work with, and SUBSTANTIALLY
> changed operational speeds on disk access. It even had a "legacy" mode
> that would allow it to act as a sort of a dumb Disk II Controller
> pass-through, in case you had a piece of software that didn't play well
> with the acceleration/caching features.
>
> I'll see what I can do about maybe pulling the old "Ultimate //e" out of
> storage and firing it up, and maybe get some decent pictures too.
>
> Cheers,
> James Noyes
> (nntp@retrogeeks.com)