Re: odd cards

[bobryan9@my-deja.com]

In article <20000708145825.25459.00000559@ng-fg1.aol.com>,
  simm8mb@aol.com (SIMM8MB) wrote:
> I found some cards in a IIe and IIgs. One that came out of the IIe
says
> ramfactor, and judging from how many memory chips are on it- it looks
like it
> has 1mb.

That's a 1 megabyte slot1-7 memory card.  It has some neat features.  I
think you can set it up as a RAM disk, and a few programs recognize the
card and use it for extra memory (I believe there is a program on the
drive disk called AppleWorks Expander, so you can use the extra memory
in Appleworks)

There might be printer buffer software on the disk too.


>The other from the IIgs has replaced the ram expansion card - it is
> called an MD-Ideas Octoram and it has (8) 256k 30pin sims installed
in it- 2
> megs. It looks like you can put (8) 1mb simms in it to total
8megabytes.

I was looking in my Nibble Magazines the other day and I saw the
OctoRAM card.  It was in an article that reviewed RAM and
Accelerators.  The OctoRAM was the only one that went all the way up to
8 megabytes in the article.

Stick some more simms memory and upgrade the card to 8 megabytes.  I
have some simms for cheap if you're interested.


>Also,
> another card from the IIe says V-Tech and it looks like a floppy
controller.
> There are 2 20pin headers with cables on each of them with DB-19
connectors on
> the end. One says DRV 1 and DRV 2. Is this some sort of high density
floppy
> card or what? Can anybody tell me anything about these?
>

Thats a card to use 800k 3.5 drives on the IIe (it may work with
Unidisk's, but the cards most attractive feature is the use of IIgs
800k drives)..  I have one of these cards and never use it.  The IIgs
has 3.5 disk support built into the motherboard.



Bob


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