Re: Can anyone identify this card?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"AndyX" <jmullett@aHiGofJ33fOzemail.com.au> wrote in message
news:EUcAb.521$Bb1.21890@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...
: Hello people,
:
: Quite a few years back, I was given the remains of a (very)
rich
: friend-of-a-friend's apple 2. I remember taking all the more
interesting
: parts from it and expanding our own apple 2 to its absolute
maximum
: capacity of bits and pieces. It's now a fully-decked out
Apple2, the
: likes of which few (I assume) see.
:
: Trouble is - I've forgotten what the hell most of it does. The
picture
: linked is of a 1MB (yes, megabyte) cache/memory card that in
it's day
: was phenomenally expensive. The documentation provided with it
suggests
: that it's some kind of SCSI adaptor (?) but I haven't the
foggiest.
: About all I've ever done with it was to test it with the
included
: software, and get an A-OK result. Other than that I'm clueless.
:
: Anyway - here's the link. I'd appreciate any information you
fellas
: might have on it.
:
: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~jmullett/Apple/Unknown.JPG

Having 2 of these I can tell you that it is a 1 mb ram card
for II,II+, IIe. Could be used in IIgs but I can't think of
any reason why you'd want to, but what it does is give you
a 1 mb ramdisk under ProDOS or with AppleWorks I believe it
will operate as bank-switched ram. This has been all I have
been able to gather from what I've seen said about it in the
NGs. It can go into any slot but slot 3 since 3 is the video
slot. You can't hurt anything by plugging it in and messing
with it. As I have said, I have 2 of these and they make a
really nice ramdisk. Just be sure to save everything off of
it onto a real disk before shutting down.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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