Re: New Apple II (was Apple's next move ...)

[jamess@cts.com (Jim Stafford)]

:      I checked computer ads in our local Sunday paper. Piles of IDE hard
: disks and CD-ROM drives are listed. Not one (1) SCSI item of any kind is
: mentioned.

We have a weekly computer magazine here and there are a bit more IDE hard 
drives in it. But as I was looking at the issue that came out today I 
noticed that there were scsi drives priced the same as IDE drives for the 
same ammount of mega bytes.



:      And, supposedly, Betamax is fixing to really wop VHS? Several of the
: newer PCI models have eliminated plug-in disk/CD-ROM interface boards
: altogether. They include the E-IDE interface on the motherboard. Alas, for
: SCSI, the proverbial 'handwriting is on the wall'. 

There are also several motherboards that come with scsi. I was thining of 
buying one myself. I suggest you get PC World and read the article.

There are also several computers that are advertised as coming with scsi 
hard drives. 


:      There should be no problem with having a SCSI option. However, if
: GS-X includes a 2GB hard disk and x8 (or x10) CD-ROM drive, E-IDE will
: have to be present. (The alternative, for SCSI, is several hundred $$$ of
: added cost.)  Since E-IDE _must_ be available, it is most cost-effective
: to place it on the motherboard. Users who wish to add a SCSI interface can
: plug in a SCSI interface card.

Thats just the problem, you see I already have hard drives and a cd-rom 
drive I don't even need more. What I do need is a new motherboard that is 
compatable with all the devices I already have. I have a tower case that 
has a 4x cd drive and a nice hard drive, if I got a GS-X motherboard with a 
scsi interface I'd have no problem having a new computer set up in no time.
There would be a lot less cost this way. I don't need or want a 10x cd drive
and a 2 gig scsi drive would be no problem to obtain.

In our weely computer magazine in the column Ask Dan the Mac Man someone 
wrote in and said he wanted to upgrade his hard drive and wanted to know 
what would be better ide or scsi. Dan replies to get a scsi drive because 
they are better (he says that's why they cost more too). He goes on to 
say that the reason that Apple even put ide on some of their cmputers for 
the internal hard drive was an effort to cut cost.

I have this 486 that someone gave me, before he gave it to me he too 
everything off except for a controller card. I plan to use Linux on this 
computer. I got a Linux cd and took it to a friend of mine's house who 
has pc to have a boot and root disk made. This guy couldn't even find all 
the files that I needed to do this. So I went to Radio Shack and bought a 
null modem and tranfered the files from the cd on my GS to the 3.5 drive 
on the pc. Now if I bought an GS-X that had an IDE interface this is what 
I would have to do with all my files on my current scsi drives or 
reinstall evrything! This would be such a problem. I would not buy a 
computer that does not come with scsi.  

jamess