Re: fastest storage device for apple II?

["Hugh Hood" <hugh.hood@a2central.com.remove-10nx-this>]

  To: Simon D. Williams
Fellas,

Seeing is believing.

Back in the day, I thought nuthin' could beat my 5 Meg RamFactor/RamChargers
running everything from memory with no disk access.

That was until the day a buddy brought his IIGS with a DMA Rev. D RamFAST
and a SCSI drive to show n' tell at the computer club meeting.

That damn thing booted ProDOS 8, AppleWorks and half a million TimeOut
modules so fast it made my head spin.

Not soon thereafter, I bought a RamFAST and a SCSI drive. And I _still_ have
those fat 5 Meg RamFactors in storage. <g>

The RamFAST has it limitations, but hooked to a ZIP 100 or ZIP 250 Drive or
two, it _transforms_ the Apple II.

Hugh...

P.S. - I really miss the old computer clubs. I overlooked AppleWorks macro
programs until I saw them demo'ed at a computer club meeting. I was
instantly hooked and I write AppleWorks macros even today.





in article Pine.GSO.4.64.0803160407200.19627@halifax.chebucto.ns.ca, Simon
D. Williams at bb065@chebucto.ns.ca wrote on 3/16/08 2:11 AM:

> On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, heuser.marcus@freenet.de wrote:
> 
>> My MicroDrive Turbo IDE (GS-firmware) is much faster with
>> a IDE 2,5" harddisk than a CFFA 2.0 (v1.2 65C02 firmware)
>> with a Sandisk flash card.
>> My GS (2,8MHz) boots quicker to begin with and I can note
>> differences when I copy many or large files.
> 
> I have pretty much the same set-up and I find the MicroDrive noticeably
> faster. I imagine attaching a 7200 rpm drive would speed things up even
> more (or melt something).>
> 
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