Re: IIGS ram card work in ][e?

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) writes...

>    Well they're standard 50-pin Apple II slot cards, which means
>they can be inserted and used inside any Apple II with slots (the
>II+, IIe, IIgs, as well as compatibles and clones). They're called
>"Slinky" due to the way they address memory, reading one byte at
>a time, in a sequential order. I believe Apple used the analogy of 
>slinky toy climbing down stairs--it takes one stair at a time and
>and continuiously follows this pattern.

    I forgot to mention if you plug a Slinky RAM card into a IIgs,
it cannot be used as conventional memory for native _or_ emulated
8-bit applications. It will only be seen as a RAM Disk device.

>    Cards that plug into the 50-pin auxiliary slot on the IIe are
                              ^^
    That should have said 60-pin of course. :)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca