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Re: Apple IIgs RAM disk

Subject: Re: Apple IIgs RAM disk
From: shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)
Date: 1997/04/21
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Front Range Internet, Inc, Fort Collins, Colorado
References: <5iqnaj$120i@enzu.unm.edu> <5jbav9$h5r@lynx.unm.edu> <19970421201142106602@dempson.actrix.gen.nz> <335b7547.2074217@167.152.149.11>


In article <335b7547.2074217@167.152.149.11>,
Edhel Iaur, Esq. <LOSETHECAPITALWORDSedhel@bigfoot.com> wrote:

>>> 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.
>
>Someone here has the 3MB RAM, I remember.  Didn't those RamFactor III
>ads offer cards with up to 16MB RAM? ("Price: CALL")

You're confusing RAMfactor with RAMworks. RAMworks is the aux slot card that
provided 80 columns and RGB video along with memory expansion. RAMfactor is
a clone of Apple's slinky card. RAMworks could go to 3 mb and RAMfactor could
go to 5 mb.
-- 
Randy Shackelford                                 
shack@frii.com

References:
- Apple IIgs RAM disk
  - From: casa@unm.edu (Jim Pittman)
- Re: Apple IIgs RAM disk
  - From: buggie@musca.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)
- Re: Apple IIgs RAM disk
  - From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
- Re: Apple IIgs RAM disk
  - From: LOSETHECAPITALWORDSedhel@bigfoot.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.)

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