Re: Z-RAM for IIc: install questions

[sebugg@CS1.PRESBY.EDU (Stephen Buggie)]

I installed the Z-RAM successfull, and I am sure that it is the "original"
(1985) ZRAM.  It has 8 soldered-on ram chips (256K), and also eight 
sockets that are now filled with another bank of 256K, so I have 512K
on board.  A Z-80 chip is soldered UNDERNEATH the board.  There is no 
clock chip: (The board has no provision for a battery).

It works --- recognized by Appleworks, DiversiCopy, and Point-to-Point
(scrollback buffer of 340K witrh Point to Point).

I have the AE RAM tester disk ---- the disk came with my RamFactor IIe
slot card but it contains many various RAM testing programs, for the whole 
series of ZRAM cards.   The outline silouette of Z-RAM original is correctly
illustrated on the software graphic.

I really hope to use the card as a RAM disk for holding the dictionary of
Bank Street Writer Plus, but so far am unsuccessful doing that.  BSW+
expects to put the dictionary onto numbered-slot RAM (e.g., Ram Factor),
while Z-RAM serves as auxillary slot memory instead.

Advice appreciated!

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QUESTION:

I have Master Diagnostics IIc/IIe software.  This software tests RAM but only
up to 128K.  Does anyone have a SOFTWARE PATCH by which Master Diagnostics IIe
or IIc can recognize and test the additional memory?

(I have 1024K + 768K in my IIe; I have 512K in my flagship of the IIc fleet.)

sebugg@presby.edu

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