Re: Strange Memory Board!

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Chris (cturley@nospam.net) wrote:

:     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?

Boy things have gotten weird when Apple's own hardware is considered "strange".
That's Apple's slinky memory card you're talking, the kind they came out with
for 8 bit IIs. Their //c memory card works the same software wise. It works
as a RAM disk with no formatting or driver installation and Appleworks 1.3 and
up use it for desktop space. In a IIgs it works as a RAM disk only. I have one
in my ROM 3 for RAM disk instead of using system memory.
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