Re: RAM card slots?

["John Van Winkle" <appleiieman@charter.net>]

The light bulb hasn't been burning too bright today, you'll have to excuse
me...I do agree with what you said, since mine are in the AUX slot and won't
fit too well in a regular slot......<grin>



"Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "John Van Winkle" <appleiieman@charter.net> wrote in message
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> > If it is a RAMworks card, I would put it in slot 5 and the workstation
> card
> > in slot 7 and disk in slot 6.  To use the RAM with RAMworks cards, you
> need
> > to load the drivers for Appleworks so when Appleworks loads, the drivers
> > will be loaded with it.  To use the RAM disk with PRODOS, I have to make
a
> > boot disk with the PRODOS drivers for the RAMworks card on it so it sees
> > sevaral "disks" with PRODOS.  Hope this helps.
> >
>
> RAMFACTOR... a RAMWORKS card would look funny in a standard slot, and
might
> even smoke a little.
>
> Not that I haven't seen people try doing that back in the day.
>
> Funny but pathetic service story #1
>
> Fried GS motherboard... user upgraded from a //e to a GS, neglected to
tell
> us he had an large investment in memory cards, peripherals (no cards in
case
> when he brought unit it - we weren't original distributor either). We
asked
> him what he had and he said not to worry, "knew what he was doing, yada
> yada..." He came back 2 hours later with his upgraded //e case with an
> original RamWorks board in the GS memory slot... "I thought that's where
it
> went...." Amazingly, the AE card survived - at least initially.
>
> Funny but pathetic service story #2
>
> The mouse doesn't work... user complained the mouse didn't work and we
asked
> if they were plugging it carefully into the keyboard. User said "Huh? No,
in
> the back..." later, user came in to buy replacement mouse - she had broke
> and bent the pins from trying to cram it into one of the serial ports.
>
>