Re: AE Ramworks III

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <51mrfj$lr1@crl4.crl.com>, Matthew Pearce <mpearce@crl.com> wrote:
>Clairemont High School (clairmnt@n2.net) wrote:
>:  
>:  
>: We recently acquired an  AE Ramworks II card (1986 rev. F)
>: with 512 k that is installed in the aux. slot of a platinum IIe.
>:  
>: It appears to be necessary to format the ram every time
>: the machine is powered on before it can be recognized. Is that true?
>: I must be missing something, but I'm not familiar with this.
>:  
>I had a RAMWorks card for a few years.  If memory serves, AppleWorks 3.0
>(and probably later) would recognize the extra RAM w/out the card being
>initialized.  Other than that, you had to initialize the card with AE's
>software before you could use it.

I think we're talking RAM disk here. If you don't install a device driver
each time you boot, all you get is the normal 64K RAM disk instead of one
the size of your aux memory. This is why I added a slinky to my //e. It works
pretty slick to have both a slinky and an aux slot memory card; programs
that utilize extra memory such as Appleworks 3.0 and up, PT3, and Publish It!
use the aux memory and leave the slinky for RAM disk use.
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Randy Shackelford                                 US Air Force officer
shack@frii.com                                    and Apple aficionado