Re: What was that thing called...?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Tilghman Lesher writes ...
> 
> Jorn Barger (jorn@MCS.COM) wrote:
> 
> : around the time of the 2e, some old Apple wizard came out with a weird
> : all-in-one card that may have been mostly non-volatile RAM, plus its
> : own OS on ROM that made it a word-processor/etc.
> 
> : the idea was it did a few things unbelieveably efficiently...
> 
> : it sounded to me like a nifty experiment, but went nowhere AFAIK...
> 
> : anybody remember this?  (was it called 'flashcard' maybe???)
> 
> I think SQC still sells a product called "FlashBoot".  The same thing, maybe?
>

     Interesting guess, but, probably, one of the older for-IIe cards mentioned 
is a more likely candidate.

     Flashboot definitely deserves more mention than it receives. It is a 
program which allows a IIgs user to auto-load a System (from a specially 
archived diskette or diskettes) to RAM disk and, then, boot the System. 
Basically, it lets a user with lots of RAM and no hard disk obtain hard 
disk-like performance from his/her GS.
 


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