Re: RAM card slots?

[Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz>]

In <BD636DB7.119C1%delorean@NOSPAMbtconnect.com> Richard Kilpatrick  
wrote:
> 
> Just messing with the IIe Platinum some more, and I've discovered what 
> I was told was 4Mb was in fact a 1Mb card 32 x 4256s, which are 256Kx1 
> of course.
>
> However, it's not working in a logical fashion as a RAM disk. 
> Specifically, the Workstation card in Slot 6, RAM in slot 7, disks in 
> Slot 5 results in Apple II Desktop being copied to RAM disk at book 
> and seemingly the server's HD is mounted with a RAM icon with no HD 
> icon.
>
> Moving the card to slot 5 and shuffling the others up, results in the 
> disk being marked with a Profile icon and no RAM disk.

Some early software was notorious for making assumptions, such as if a 
disk controller is in slot 5 and it's not a 5.25" floppy controller then 
it must be a ProFile card.

> AppleWorks 1.1 can't see any extra RAM.

I think 1.3 was the first version of AppleWorks that supported more than 
the base 128KB of memory without using a third-party patch.

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Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
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