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Re: Tiny RAM drive (Re: ][+ Questions)
- Subject: Re: Tiny RAM drive (Re: ][+ Questions)
- From: "Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 12:33:03 +1200
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: ihug ( New Zealand )
- References: <9fdh6j$dug$1@nserve1.acs.ucalgary.ca> <ilblhtk8mkol7a86fa68ptdvtd5on76dkh@4ax.com> <9fhlfr$m48$1@nserve1.acs.ucalgary.ca> <36cd6118.0106051610.7cb60982@posting.google.com>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:8497
In article <36cd6118.0106051610.7cb60982@posting.google.com>,
waynes@intergate.ca (Wayne Stewart) wrote:
> If you look in older issues of nibble or Call-A.P.P.L.E. it seems like
> every issue had a programs for making small RAMdisks, usuaslly about 16k.
> Keep in mind that in 1980 a 16k memory card was about $200.
>
> Wayne
>
> Byron Desnoyers Winmill wrote
>
>> How would somebody have used such a tiny write-protected RAM drive? (Gee,
>> it is hard to think on the kB scale anymore!)
And before ProDOS became common most people were still using DOS which only
used the main 48KB memory. The 16KB language card area was unused by most
DOS programs too, so you had to do _something_ with that extra memory.
--
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
Apple II - Future Cop:LAPD - Warcraft II
http://homepage.mac.com/rojaws
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