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Re: Happy 20th Birthday, csa2!

Warren Ernst wrote:
> 
> The Google Groups history has my oldest post at November 4, 1990.
> 
> (The link:
>
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/tree/browse_frm/month/1990-11/c3db1afde28088f6?rnum=201&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.sys.apple2%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F1990-11%3F#doc_ee06da0488a25c7b
> )
> 
> However, I thought I was on still earlier, and indeed, this post
> mentions an earlier discussion about the topic I'm commenting on so i
> must have been reading something somewhere, but the Google Search
> function for posts this old has gone lame, and I'm not going to go
> through a jillion posts in order to find it.
> 

Interestingly enough, where the posts from the GMD archive and the UTZoo
archive overlapped, Google chose to display the articles from GMD. Anyway, 
I've got the copy of that article that arrived at utzoo:

http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=1&id=30845


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From: warren.e@pro-beagle.cts.com (Warren Ernst)
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Subject: RamFactor
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Hi, kids!

As for the formatting of the Ramfactordiscussion a while back, you don't
have
to in order to use it just as a RamDisk (you know, copying files, running
stuff, etc).

However, you can't boot off of it unless you DO format it. Copy//+ or
something works fine. After doing this, if you then copy ProDOS, some SYSTEM
file (likle ProSEL or ULTRA.SYSTEM, for example), and then do a PR#x or a
Warm-Restart and its in a high slot, it will boot like a floppy, except
REALLY
REALLY FAST.

I like it so much, I never turn off my machine! (and my roommate got used to
the system saver going at night inonly about a month. cool, huh?)

Later
-Warren.E

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