Re: 16-17Meg IIe Ramcard using regular memory chips

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Obsbedia2 writes ...
> 
> The Apple IIe's Ramworks III card's 1/2 Meg expander card uses ordinary old
> memory chips, unlike it' 2 Meg expander sibling which I've only seen pictures
> of.
> 
> Is there any reason why a 2 Meg or larger (Nibble ads quote the RamWorks III at
> 16 MEG and the CheckMate at 17MEG) couldn't be cobbled together and use regular
> A2 ram chips?
> 
> The 2MEG expander does not and the 4MEG chips that the 16MEG expansion cards
> never seem to have come out (at least in time).  I'm really starting to push
> this 1MEG card on the IIe and could use a little elbow room in the future.
> 
 ....

     There does not seem to be any reason you could not put huge quantities of RAM
on a IIe expansion card except, maybe, a limit on the number of 64k banks your
software will recognize. If the limit is an eight-bit quantity, then 16MB would
figure as a limit.

     Something I've wordered about is what so much memory would be good for on a
IIe? A database management program might benefit from large RAM; but, is there
anything else the extra memory is good for-- like, can you set up a large RAM
disk?



Rubywand