Re: Where To Buy IIgs RAM, What to get?????

[pubpc1@library.ucla.edu]

itsme wrote:
> 
> I would like to get a IIgs RAM card.
> 
> I would like it to be 4 or 8 megabytes.
> 
> I am looking for the cheapest supplier, and the specs on the boards.
> 
> Please Note that I just did Several Alta Vista Searches, and I only found
> a description of someones IIgs with a Sirius Ram card installed.

Try http://www.allelec.com/

> 
> Do you have info on a particular card?
> 
> What price is it?
> Where can I get it?
> What chips are used to expand it?
> Slot 7 interference?
> RAM Speed?
> 
> Is there one RAM card that is better than others?  IE, is one faster than
> others, does it have more features?

The Sirius is the cheapest and can do 8MB.

> 
> You may wonder why the heck I want 8 Megabytes for an OLD IIgs computer.
> 
> I am getting into the IIgs, and system software takes up a whole bunch of
> memory.
> 
> Once you start adding desk accessories, you start to lose more and more
> RAM.
> 
> SIS is on its way to me in the Mail, so MEMory will help.
> 
> Is it possible to store these items in the Upper 4 MEGabytes of memory?
> 
> and still use the Lower 4 MEGS for DMA with RAMFAST?

You can use 8MB with DMA if you have a RamFAST rev. D (rev. C
won't do it.  C is the bigger card.  All new onces are D.)

> 
> ---Josh Smith

-Scott G.