Re: Memory on my GS

[erik@hypermall.com (Erik Kloeppel)]

In article <3ue116$dbo@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>, illumin@ix.netcom.com (Brad
Hartley ) wrote:

> Ok, thanks everyone for your posts on helping me with this nice machine
> I have here next to the Pentium. 
> 
> Now I have another question. I opened the GS up and I have two cards in
> it. Some type of sound card, and apparently a memory upgrade. The
> question is, I have no idea how much memory it was upgraded to. 
> 
> The card says Apple IIGS Memory Expansion 1986.
> 24 chips are set into IC sockets, and 8 are non-removable.
> Any ideas?

probably no more than 1MB - maybe 1.5MB - you can find out from the
Control Panel (OA-CTRL-ESC).. look at the RAMdisk sub-menu.  It will tell
you total memory.
> 
> Also the soundcard is a Doctor Design (Says on the card). And has a
> switch on the back of the machine. 
> 
> Am I off to a good start here?
> 
heh - yer on yer own here.. never heard of it myself.

> I've also just got an Apple 3.5 Drive made in 1988. Any good?

no problems - I still use three of them I bought in 1986.  If it works, ..
well, what more can you say?

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