Re: GS RAM III

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message
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> tturner@ecn.ab.ca writes ...
> >     Point being that I'm pretty sure I'll not be able to order RAM
> >     for this card.  So: does anyone know where I can get RAM chips
> >     for my GS RAM III card?
>
>      The GS RAM III from AE may be the best 4MB expansion memory board
ever
> produced for the IIgs. It is very compact, produces little heat, and uses
less
> power than other expansion memory cards. The one down side is that the Zip
> package RAM IC's are not commonly available. Here's a FAQs snip which may
help
> ...
>
>
> ref. Csa2 FAQs-on-Ground ref: Csa2HDWHACK.txt
> >>
>
> From: David Chiu, Dick Pirong, Bart, Paul Grammens
>
> 017- Where can I get the "Zip" package chips to expand my AE GS-RAM III
>      memory Expansion card to 4MB?
>
>      The Applied Engineering GS-RAM III uses 20-pin "Zip" package 1M x 4
DRAMs
> (NEC D424400V-80 or OKI H5144024-70).  A few other Apple II memory cards
also
> use relatively rare Zip package RAM. As of July 2000, you could find the
chips
> you need at M.C. Howard Electronics ( http://www.mchoward.com/; orders:
> 1-800-490-6896).
>

Unfortunately, the chips M.C. Howard sent me were 4 meg x 1 instead of 1 meg
x 4, and when I explained that they had sent the wrong chips, they said they
didn't have any of the correct type.
-Paul