Re: Can anyone identify this card?

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

"AndyX" <jmullett@aHiGofJ33fOzemail.com.au> wrote in message
news:vCdAb.526$Bb1.22206@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...
: Bill Garber wrote:
:
: > 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.
:
: Now that you mention it, I remember once loading up GEOS on my
apple 2
: and seeing the card appear as a RAM disk... It's starting to
come back
: to me now :).

Most any GUI based OS will show it as a ramdisk.
Some auto-format them and others require you to
format it after initial booting. Being a long time
Atari buff in the 80's, I only recently joined in
the Apple II experience. After little more than a
year, I am already hacking and beginning to program,
and I hope to soon create adapters for the IIc which
will allow newer types of storage devices to be
attached and/or installed.

: I was looking on ebay for anyone selling these - that was my
first means
: of trying to find out WTF it did (people generally have useful
info in
: their descriptions ... well at least sometimes.)  Seems as
though
: they're a rare piece. Maybe one day I should trawl through the
vicious
: pile of unopened documentation in the cupboard and actually
muck around
: with these things. As it was, when we got the apple 2 I was too
young to
:   understand anything more than the games on it...  Only now am
I having
: a proper mess around with any of it.

I've been looking for them as well, as one of mine
is not functioning properly and I'm not sure if the
logic is bad, or one or more srams. Seems that most
of the items I really want come up for sale/auction
near the end of the month when money becomes tight.
Anyway, now that you know what it is, let the fun
begin.

: BTW thanks for your prompt answers guys.

You are always welcome.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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