Re: ROM Card question

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

"Bryan Villados" <news002@macgeek.org> writes:
>What I don't understand is exactly what's the thought pattern of these
>products were... Why would someone buy a ROM card when they can easily buy a
>16K RAM card (Language Card what Apple called it) and load the BASIC you
>want to it.

The only reason I can see is if you had no disk drive and just used both
Integer & AppleSoft BASICs with tape for saving your programs.

>And with a 16K RAM card, you could use it for other things
>besides BASIC. With a ROM card, you would either be stuck with the RAM that
>came with the logic board, or you would have to use yet another slot and buy
>a RAM card that can live in slots other than 0. The only advantage I can see
>in a ROM card is loading of BASIC (DOS 3.3 takes several seconds to load
>BASIC into the Language Card).

The ROM cards work in any slot, not just slot 0. DOS 3.x only looks in
slot 0 for alternate languages but the switch on the back would still
work to select whichever BASIC you wanted.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia