Re: 16-17Meg IIe Ramcard using regular memory chips

[Matt Jenkins <mdj@pacific.net.au>]

Obsbedia2 wrote:
> 
> The Apple IIe's Ramworks III card's 1/2 Meg expander card uses ordinary old
> memory chips, unlike it' 2 Meg expander sibling which I've only seen pictures
> of.
> 
> Is there any reason why a 2 Meg or larger (Nibble ads quote the RamWorks III at
> 16 MEG and the CheckMate at 17MEG) couldn't be cobbled together and use regular
> A2 ram chips?

What do you mean by regular Apple II ram chips ?
 
> The 2MEG expander does not and the 4MEG chips that the 16MEG expansion cards
> never seem to have come out (at least in time).  I'm really starting to push
> this 1MEG card on the IIe and could use a little elbow room in the future.

I know the feeling. I've been longing for the 2 meg expander for my
RamWorks, but I've
yet to come across one.

I'd imagine it'd be possible to do this, but you'd need to reverse
engineer the expansion
connector on the RamWorks, and without one of the expanders to use as a
guide, this could
be pretty hard.

Nonetheless, if you manage to be successful, I'd be interested in buying
such a device from
you :)

Cheers,

Matt