Re: AST RamStakPlus ---- Any info available?

[Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com>]

In article <qu238t0hrfkct22ufvjk6mkeq1fmpvffp7@4ax.com>, Joshua Falken 
<BrassHat@CrystalPalace> wrote:

> I have a ramstakplus board and no documentation. It looks like a 1meg
> ram card with sockets for 4 rom chips. Anyone know about this? any
> info on the roms and jumpers would be appreciated. thanks.
> 


   I have one of these boards sitting in a box -- it was a 2nd RamStack 
Plus I got free on some deal w/ those Apple Bose RoomMates back in '88 
or so.

   I believe the board accepts 1MB total RAM and yes, there's those 4 
EPROM/EEPROM sockets.  I believe it will take a higher capacity EPROM 
than EEPROM - but with EEPROMs, you can write to them using the board 
itself (EPROMS need a burner).  The board came w/ EEPROM writing 
software.  I think it would take 256K of EEPROM, not sure about EPROMS.  
I remember I had 16K of EEPROM (4K/chip) which I only kept 'CTYPE' in, 
if I recall.  It acts like a small drive, sitting in slot 5, drive 2 I 
believe.  Quite fine.

   I really dug that board back in the day.  On the IIgs that I've 
recently put together, I am using a 4MB Sirius RAM board -- so the 
RamStack Plus lies dormant (if anyone wants it).  

   Not sure about documentation tho.  I don't have any.  (Quick Google 
search revealed nothing -- tho I just learned AST did sell the 
"RamStack" for the Lisa!)





bp