Re: Apple IIGS 256KB-only RAM card from Apple

[Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Jun 21, 7:54 pm, A2Pro <a...@wilserv.com> wrote:
> Hi, y'all!
>
> On Jun 21, 5:36 am, Polymorph <polymorp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have one of these cards, but I de-soldered all of the DRAM's for use
> > in another 1Mb card. I didn't realise that they where rare when I
> > performed this cannibalism however. I'll keep my eye on this and see
> > the result. If it is worth something I may be tempted to replace those
> > DRAM's.  :-)
>
>     Does this mean that the chips you removed are 1MBx1 chips?  If
> that is the case, then that means that this card is actually a 1 MB
> expansion card.  That would make more sense as I can't understand why
> Apple would have wanted to produce a RAM expansion card for the IIgs
> that had only 256 KB of RAM.
>
> Willi

Nope...the DRAMs are 256kx1 and yes the card is most definitely a
256Kb card.

I used the desoldered chips to bolster the memory on a standard 1Mb
card.

cheers,
-p