Re: GS-RAM Plus Card Wierdness

[icssofty@aol.commonality (ICS Softy)]

>
>As I am digging through the various parts I have gotten for use with this
>Apple IIgs I have found I have three (3) of these GS-Ram Plus Cards.  So
>wondering how much memory they had I plugged them each in and found that
>they each took me to 8MB of Ram.
>

>I have to wonder if this is correct tho as from what I see on the web this
>card only supports 6MB, and only 1/6th (8 of 48 possible) chip slots are
>filled.  This is the same situation on each and every one of the GS-Ram
>cards I have.  Is this possible?  are they perhaps using larger than
>standard chips?  any help is appreciated.
>
>Doug
>
>

The GS RAM Plus could hold up to either 1.5MB or 6MB on the main board
depending upon which RAM chips were used (256KB or 1MB).  You could not mix
chip sizes either.  To get it up to 8MB required the 1MB RAM chips and adding a
piggyback card (w/ another 2 banks worth of 1MB chips) to the main card.


Larry :)