Re: GS 1 meg board -- more room?

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article Louis Cornelio <cornelio@crl.crl.com> writes...

>A simple question
> 
>Is the Apple made IIGS 1 meg memory board expandable? It certainly seems
>to have room on it w/ all those empty banks...

    No, it only supports one type of chip (256Kx1) and with all banks 
fully populated will only reach as high as 1 MB. You can however have
it piggyback to specialized memory cards, such as the CV-Technologies
board with the piggyback connector (it could hold a maximum of 4 MB,
but if you piggybacked the Apple board it would expand to 5 MB). The
Applied Engineering RamKeeper was another example.

    These days it makes more sense to retire the Apple card and just
purchase a new 4 MB (or higher) memory card. Less fuss and obviously
less of a drain on your powersupply.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca