Re: odd cards

["The Meikles" <action1@telusplanet.net>]

The octoram is an excellent memory card. I have one that is expanded to 8
megs. One thing to watch for though is the simms that you use. I origially
tryed to expand the card using PC simms, but even though the Octoram is
suppossed to work with these I ended up using simms out of a Mac.

Sheane

<bobryan9@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8k88sd$rnj$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <20000708145825.25459.00000559@ng-fg1.aol.com>,
>   simm8mb@aol.com (SIMM8MB) wrote:
> > I found some cards in a IIe and IIgs. One that came out of the IIe
> says
> > ramfactor, and judging from how many memory chips are on it- it looks
> like it
> > has 1mb.
>
> That's a 1 megabyte slot1-7 memory card.  It has some neat features.  I
> think you can set it up as a RAM disk, and a few programs recognize the
> card and use it for extra memory (I believe there is a program on the
> drive disk called AppleWorks Expander, so you can use the extra memory
> in Appleworks)
>
> There might be printer buffer software on the disk too.
>
>
> >The other from the IIgs has replaced the ram expansion card - it is
> > called an MD-Ideas Octoram and it has (8) 256k 30pin sims installed
> in it- 2
> > megs. It looks like you can put (8) 1mb simms in it to total
> 8megabytes.
>
> I was looking in my Nibble Magazines the other day and I saw the
> OctoRAM card.  It was in an article that reviewed RAM and
> Accelerators.  The OctoRAM was the only one that went all the way up to
> 8 megabytes in the article.
>
> Stick some more simms memory and upgrade the card to 8 megabytes.  I
> have some simms for cheap if you're interested.
>
>
> >Also,
> > another card from the IIe says V-Tech and it looks like a floppy
> controller.
> > There are 2 20pin headers with cables on each of them with DB-19
> connectors on
> > the end. One says DRV 1 and DRV 2. Is this some sort of high density
> floppy
> > card or what? Can anybody tell me anything about these?
> >
>
> Thats a card to use 800k 3.5 drives on the IIe (it may work with
> Unidisk's, but the cards most attractive feature is the use of IIgs
> 800k drives)..  I have one of these cards and never use it.  The IIgs
> has 3.5 disk support built into the motherboard.
>
>
>
> Bob
>
>
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