Re: Looking for pics of IIGS hardware expansion cards

[sloopy malibu <sloopy@amishinfo.com>]

i have a ramkeeper in my gs and i only use it so i can have two ram cards in
my machine so i dont have to splurge for a expensive large ram card :') i
have not used it as a rom disk yet but if asked i could try it for a fyi to
check boot speed...

sloopy.


> From: Justin Scott <djnospam@impakt.net>
> Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:32:58 -0000
> Subject: Re: Looking for pics of IIGS hardware expansion cards
> 
> Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:
>> Technically the 65816 can use 16mb of RAM but the IIgs is made such that it
>> can only use 8mb as RAM so nobody produced cards over 8mb. A 16mb card could
>> have been made but the last 8mb would be seen as ROM,  AE made the
>> RAMkeeper, a card that you could connect two RAM cards to so you could with
>> the right combination of cards get up to 8mb RAM & 8mb ROM. A transformer
>> and battery could be hooked up to it to allow fast booting. I've never tried
>> comparing it's boot time to a Ramfast which does DMA. Main reason is the
>> card had a bad reputation for occasionally starting fires when used with the
>> transformer or battery backup. The two I know about were earlier versions
>> but I don't know whether that problem was fixed or not.
>> 
>> Without the power supply & battery it was fine though. Usually once you got a
>> hard drive ROMdisks lost a lot of their appeal
> 
> Yikes!  I drooled over the ramkeeper and the one by umm... checkmate
> technologies...  The thought of having a huge rom-disk was very appealing to
> me
> in my //c days.
> 
> I can see why no-one would want a ram/rom disk after getting an HD though.
> 
> I really want to max this thing out, but seems that everyone wants a ton of
> cash for lots-of-megs memory cards.
> 
> cheers,
> j