Re: //gs Memory 8 or 16megs?

[marvinmiller@hotmail.com (Marvin Miller)]

Thanks Willie, that was a great explanation! Have you got these cards
for sale by any chance? ;-)

Marvin

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:20:38 +1000, Willie Yeo <willie@singapore.com>
wrote:

>Marvin Miller wrote:
>
>> I understand Applied makes a ramKEEPER. I know not what it does....
>
>    The AE RamKeeper is a card that acts to keep the content of the memory intact
>even after the Apple IIgs is powered down, they do this with an external battery
>that is hooked on to a charger.
>
>    The AE RamKeeper has a piggy-back that enables you to put 2x AE GSRam+ cards
>with 2Mb expansion daughter board (GSRam+ is 6Mb fully populated) so that you get
>a total of 16Mb RAM. However, you can only have 8Mb of RAM in use in the Finder,
>so the other 8Mb is used as a ROM disk, you can think of this as a RAM disk.
>
>    The AE-RamKeeper, since with a piggy-back card is blocking Slot 7, also have
>a small accessory called the "Slot-Mover", which essentially, gives you a bit of
>space by having a paper-thin connectors connected to slot 7, and have the slot
>away.
>
>> I'm still trying to build/acquire 'best of breed' components for my
>> soon to arrive //gs. I still lack knowledge to make an informed
>> decision......
>
>    Well, put it this way, AE is no longer around, Alltech is !
>
>