Re: Applied Engineering (was: Re: Beagle Brothers

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

In article Peter F Handel <handel@stolaf.edu> writes...

>Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
>:     From my own experience, I feel every product Applied Engineering 
>: made for the Apple IIgs was a flop. The only expection to this would 
>: be the AE Audio Animator, but then, even that had a few minor quirks.
> 
>Did you ever have a Vulcan?  I remember when I got my 40MB Vulcan - 
>it was so incredibly fast!!  When I get my Experimental GS back from
>Gerry, it'll be serving web pages 24hrs with GS/TCP.  The Vulcan is
>very nice and very durable (anyone else remember the Nibble/InCider
>ads in the front cover, where there's a GS that fell off a table and
>was dragged on the floor, but the Vulcan still worked?).

    Sarcasm noted. ;) I've never used a Vulcan drive, although with 
a non-DMA IDE controller connected to a slow IDE drive, I doubt it 
was a speed-demon. Regardless, it was not an Apple IIgs specific 
product, other than what firmware shipped on the controller card 
(the IIe version had a different ROM firmware on the card). They 
were slow, highly overpriced and the HD mechanism seemed to die or 
go bad after a few years use from what I heard.

    Personally, I'm quite happy with my 11ms Quantum 730 Lightning 
SCSI HD (installed inside a portable TMS Shadow case), connected up 
to Rev D RamFAST SCSI with 1MB cache. Especially nice with a 15/64 
ZipGS to help push it along, meaning I can shift-boot into the Finder 
in about 4-5 seconds flat! :-)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca