Re: Extra RAM in a IIe?

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <e02fea54-413e-4eb2-a8a6-5a7d3d401997@t26g2000prt.googlegroups.com>,
mojoehand  <mojoehand@gmail.com> wrote:
>OK, putting large amounts of RAM in a IIgs makes perfect sense, as GS/
>OS will use it. What use is a large RAM card (beyond the standard 64K,
>80 Column card) in a IIe? Using it as a printer buffer is the obvious
>answer, but one that I wouldn't find personally useful.

Back in the day, the 1MB RamWorks in my IIe was useful for working with
larger files in AppleWorks and PublishIt! than could be handled by a 128K
system.  I also wrote an audio player that played through the built-in
speaker (or the cassette port, if you wanted to use an external speaker)
that could load parts of longer files into successive banks and play them
one after the other.  For the 11.025 kHz 8-bit mono files I was playing, 1
MB would hold a fair bit more than a minute of audio.

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