Re: Apple IIgs RAM disk

[Ben Reding <benr@dnvr.uswest.net>]

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David Empson wrote:

> stephen e buggie <buggie@musca.unm.edu> wrote:
>
> > I already have a 4 meg card in the RAM slot of my IIgs, and one
> meg on
> > the Rom 3 motherboard.
> >
> > WHAT THE APPLE WORLD NEEDS NOW is a 4 meg slot 1-7 RAM card, sort
> of like
> > RamFactor for the IIe.
>
> Do you really need a 4 MB RAM disk?
>
> > Does such a card exist
>
> No.  The largest standard slot RAM card is the RamFactor, which
> supports
> 1 MB.  It also supports a 2 MB piggyback card, but I gather they
> were
> very rare, if they were ever available at all.
>
> > and would its extra memory be recognized in addition to the 4 megs
>
> > in the RAM card slot.
>
> Only as a RAM disk, not as normal IIgs RAM - you would simply have 5
> MB
> of normal RAM plus a 4 MB RAM disk.
>
> --
> David Empson
> dempson@actrix.gen.nz
> Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand

David,

I installed an Applied Engineering RamKeeper with 8 MB of RAM.  The RAM
card hold 6 MB and it supports the original 2 MB RAM as a daughter
board.  I partioned the memory with 4 MB RAM for the Apple IIGS
operationg system and 4 MB RAM for a RAM disk.  The RAM disk is
maintained when the system is off and has a battery backup.

I installed the entire operating system on the RAM disk and have never
lost any data due to power outages.  The system boot in 23 seconds.

Not sure where you can buy a RamKeeper.  Applied Engineering sales phone
number is (214) 241-6060  (from 1990 manual).

Ben

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