Re: Looking for pics of IIGS hardware expansion cards

[Justin Scott <djnospam@impakt.net>]

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