Re: IIgs Memory Board question

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <199706062338181148858@por-or12-18.ix.netcom.com>,
Zane H. Healy <healyzh@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>I've got two Apple IIgs's each with a 1Mb RAM board, and an Apple IIe
>with a ~725k /RAM5 board (I've no idea the real name).

   First off, there is no way to get the GS to recognize //e slotted
cards as main ram. The AUX slot has the wrong number of pins; slot 1-7
RAM is accessed one byte at a time, with maximum speed sequentially, a
but a speed penalty for random access. Thus, programs have to be
specially written to use it as anything other than a ramdisk.

   If you feel like a bit of soldering, you might be able to move 1MB
ram from one of the boards to the other (assuming these boards take
1MB chunks; if they're full of 256K*8 chips then this isn't possible).

Nathan Mates
--
<*> Nathan Mates http://www.visi.com/~nathan/      <*>
# What are the facts? Again and again and again-- what are the _facts_?
# Shun wishful thinking, avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors
# think-- what are the facts, and to how many decimal places?  -R.A. Heinlein