Re: GSRam+ selling for 560.00 on eBay...what was so special about this card?

["Steve_C" <no.spam@no.ma'am>]

<bob@bob.us> wrote in message news:fmu05k$qdt$1@Kil-nws-1.UCIS.Dal.Ca...
> evidentally some worked and some didn't. i'm not the seller you mention
> but my gs ram plus with 6mb and no special gals worked for years in my
> rom 01 and now is serving me fine in my rom 03. i noticed that these 'old
> wives' tales' also exist with the early apple brand iic ram card which
> supposedly 'doesn't work' with the iic plus yet my card has worked
> flawlessly there too. is it possible that these folks who claim these
> cards don't work have never tested them themselves.?
>

No offense, but I find that hard to believe.  Applied Engineering was forced 
to ship both GAL chips (A & B) with orders once the problem with the card 
not working in ROM 3 was discovered.  For existing owners, they offered GAL 
chip replacements.  They never offered a card that worked in both ROM 1 and 
ROM 3 without swapping out the GAL chip.  The card may seem to work as long 
as you never actually try to read or write to its memory.

After having problems with my card not working, I did research on the 
Internet and back issues of old Apple magazines (Call A.P.P.L.E., Nibble, 
A+, etc.) and found the information about the issue and how there never was 
a fix other than requiring chip "A" in ROM 0 & 1 and chip "B" in ROM 3. 
Hence, Applied Engineering was forced to supply both chips.

With my own issue, I purchased an "A" chip from Henry at Reactive Micro and 
now it works fine.  I followed it up by using the GS-RAM/GS-RAM Plus disk 
that will test all the memory banks on the card.  Works great now.  The "B" 
chip (the newer of the two) will not work in ROM 0 or ROM 1 machines and the 
"A" chip (the older chip) will not work properly in ROM 3 machines.