Re: Why the RamWorks III?

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Mark Cummings wrote:

> Could it have something to do with the price/availability of the DRAMs at
> the time ?
> The RW Basic (256K-512K) and RWIII (256K-1M) uses 41256s (256Kx1bit), but I
> don't know what the RWII uses.
> In the case of the piggy back card for the RW Basic, RWII & RWIII, there is
> a comment in the RWIII manual stating the original piggy back card
> (discontinued at the time) used very expensive and rare 256Kx8bit DRAMs.
>
> Mark

All three cards use the same RAM. Since the 512k expander module
plugs into both the RW II & III then I'd tend to think both 2mb ones
would work on both. Not having one I can't be sure.
I did just notice one of the expansion connectors on the RW III is a bit
longer than the one on theRW II so maybe they were planning something
there

    Wayne