Re: Ramworks

["Silicon Sam" <SiliconSam@gmail.com>]

 The RAMWorks II and III had 2 memory expansion possibilities, a 512K
card, and a 2 Meg card for 1.5 or 3 Megs max.  The 3 Meg card took a
weird memory chip. Also, the III was made to work with the Pal //e as
well.

  One time a long, long time ago I interviewed Dan Pote, the guy who
started AE, and on his desk was the design drawing of the then
unnanounced RAMWorks I card.  I believe at that time they had a 128K
expansion card for the //e, can't recall the name of it though.  They
also let me borrow a card for testing and a review, and they never
asked for it back. Can't remember what it was.

  And one time one of the engineers called me wanting to buy one of the
newer Apple parallel cards, the ones with the 7 switches.  I was
thinking $25-$30 for it, I figured at the time.  I asked them what they
wanted to pay for it, and the guy came back on the phone and said Dan
will give you $100 for it.

  Once a guy called me at my shop, cause he knew I repaired Apples and
offered me 2 pallets of Apple IC's left over from the manufacture of
//e and //c's in Carrollton, TX.  It was $1200 for all of them.  A lot
of money to me 20 years ago.  A guy I eventually went to go work for
bought them and made over $50,000 off them, selling piecemeal.  I know
AE bought a bunch of the MMU and IOU chips from him for $10 a whack.
Sigh......

  Same guy also bought an entire warehouse of Apple circuit boards from
mostly //e, //c and Lisa.  Some Mac stuff too.  This was all boards
that Apple failed to repair.  I know there were at least 2000 Disk II
analog cards.  My job for over a year was to try and fix this stuff and
he would sell, or better yet, exchange the boards.  All had been
through a bed-of-nails test, and had the paperwork on each board.

  Sorry for the ramblings.  But Apple repairs had been good to me for a
long time.

Raymond