Re: Strange Memory Board!

[Robert Boucher <boucher1@pdq.net>]

I'm going way back with a very bad (human) memory, but I believe on
those type boards it took eight 256k chips to provide 256k of RAM
memory. At least that what I remember about my AE Ramfactor card.

Chris wrote:
> 
>     Hi everyone,
> 
>     I recently acquired a new part for my platinum Apple IIe.  It is one of
> those megabyte memory board that go in a peripheral slot and not the
> auxiliary slot.  It says 'Apple II Memory Expansion' on it.  It has 32 chip
> sockets on it, of which 24 are filled.  On closer examination of the chips,
> I realized that there were at least two different brands of chips on it.
> The only number on them in common was 256 after a few zeroes, so I took it
> that each chip had 256K of memory.  24*256=6144, so I assume it is a 6 MB
> memory board.  Does anyone know which slot this card should go in.  I heard
> that you needed special software or something to access this RAM and if so,
> could someone tell me what this software is?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> -Chris
> 
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