Re: Apple IIgs RAM disk

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <5jbav9$h5r@lynx.unm.edu>,
stephen e buggie <buggie@musca.unm.edu> wrote:
>I already have a 4 meg card in the RAM slot of my IIgs, and one meg on 
>the Rom 3 motherboard.

Me too, plug a 1 mb Apple slinky card in slot 5. Since I don't use any
system memory for RAM disk, I have memory to burn in my ROM 3. The finder
about window says 3.7 mb available.

>WHAT THE APPLE WORLD NEEDS NOW is a 4 meg slot 1-7 RAM card, sort of like 
>RamFactor for the IIe.   Does such a card exist, and would its extra 
>memory be recognized in addition to the 4 megs in the RAM card slot.

AE sold a 4 mb expander for the RAMfactor card, but given the price of
memory when it came out, it's hard to imagine that many were sold. So for
all practical purposes, slinky memory tops out at 1 mb per card. The memory
is only accessible a byte at a time, meaning that code can't run in slinky
memory. That leaves it mainly for RAM disk usage.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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