Re: RAM cards for IIe

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@telus.dotnet>]

Bill Garber wrote:

> Ok, that makes sense, and while I have your attention,
> if I used say NVram, would it be able to cold boot from
> it's previous state, or would it still be loaded as any
> normal DRAM or SRAM???

I'm not sure which type of RAMcard you're asking about.

If it's a 16k card made with NVRAM then you could likely keep Integer
Basic in it and it likely wouldn't get clobbered unless you ran ProDOS.
Not a lot of benefit though, as a ROMcard would be a better solution.

A slinky card would work with NVRAM. A good example is the RamFactor 
with battery backup. The bad thing about the RamFactor and the Apple II 
Memory card is that they're both slow. You can actually boot a program 
faster off a ramfast with a speedy hard drive than off one of those cards.

I don't think it'd work too well with an Auxiliary slot card because
the 64k on the motherboard is still volatile. Also if you're using a
TransWarp, the TransWarp substitutes 64k of memory on the TransWarp
for the first 64k of Auxiliary RAM.

A TransWarp made with NVRAM would be interesting. Since the RAM on
the TransWarp replaces the motherboard and first bank of Aux RAM,
I'd imagine that on turning your system back on you'd be at the
same place you were when you shut it down. Unless you were using more 
than the first bank of Aux RAM.

Most of my RAMdisk usage was from before I got a hard drive. After
that it really didn't gain me much, Even the RamFactor with
battery backup.

In the IIgs I did use the RamKeeper but was't willing to use the
battery backup when I wasn't present. There were too many reports
of fires attributed to using this card with the battery backup for
me to be willing to leave it alone with the vattery connected. On
the good side as far as I'd heard, all the fires were confined to
the inside of the IIgs case.

Wayne