Re: RAM card slots?

[Richard Kilpatrick <delorean@NOSPAMbtconnect.com>]

On 8/9/04 11:45 am, in article 20040908224515473+1200@News.Individual.NET,
"Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

> Cirtech used to make a card called the 'Flipster'. Is that what you have?
> Or maybe they changed the name. The Flipster was a 1MB card for the
> regular Apple II slots.

Mine's definitely called a Flipper - 2 bits of 'proof' now, in that it's on
the PCB, and...

> Here's some text from an ad in Nibble magazine's January 1986 issue:
> 
> FLIPSTER
> THE RAMCARD WITH A FUTURE

Well, that sounds a lot like this device. 1Mb, standard slot, and
Slinky-friendly 256Kx1 RAMs.

> From the fact that they claim it "conforms to the new Apple standard for
> large memory cards" I would think that it's compatible with the Apple II
> Memory Expansion Card (a.k.a. "Slinky"). The Apple cards have a
> diagnostic in ROM. The Cirtech card may or may not have it, and it might
> be in a different location.
> 
> To run the test on an Apple card: enter the Monitor (type CALL -151 from
> BASIC) then type Cn0AG (replacing 'n' with the slot number the card is
> in e.g. C50AG for slot 5).

Well, whaddya know. C50AG:

..."FLIPPER SELF-TEST, TAKES ABOUT 1 MINUTE PUSH ANY KEY TO STOP"

4 Passes and it's fine, so I stopped it for now to reboot. So clearly it is
a card which appears to be Slinky compatible, should theoretically work in
any slot, and work for AppleWorks 5 - yet AppleWorks 5 doesn't work with it.
Very strange. I think I need to acquire a 3.5" drive and controller for the
IIe. AppleWorks 2.0 had 'problems'.

Richard
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