Re: GS 1 meg board -- more room?

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Dave Althoff wrote:
> 
> On a related note...
> 
> At home, my IIgs has 5.25 Mb RAM.  That's 256k on the motherboard, 4Mb on
> a fully-populated RAM card (not sure which one off-hand), and 1Mb on an
> Apple GS RAM card fitted into a little piggy-back slot on the 4Mb card.
> 
> At work, where I just bought the 768k for the Apple RAM card to bring that
> machine up to 1.25Mb, I'm thinking about upgrading.  Is this 'piggy-back'
> solution available for any of the current RAM cards, say, the Sirius for
> instance?  Or will I just need to abandon the 1Mb card?  I'm thinking
> about getting a nice fat RAM card, putting it in the machine at home, and
> moving the 5Mb combo to the office...is it possible to use, say, a Sirius
> with 7Mb installed plus the Apple 1Mb card?
> 
> Just wondering...
> 
 Sorry but the Sirius ram card doesn't have a piggy-back slot.Very few
cards had that feature. On the other hand the Sirius card uses non
parity simms which are dirt cheap nowadays. 


    Wayne