Re: ZipChip @ Bargain Price!

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <cb9149b6-aa8a-436d-895d-0a6b55ef6d28@y33g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
PZ  <skierpaul@yahoo.com> wrote:
>- Yeah, the TWII got axed because Bits and Pieces licensed the Rocket
>Chip caching technology to AE.  Bits and Pieces lost the lawsuit to
>Zip. Thus the TWII and all of Bits and Pieces went the way of the
>Dodo. It was the only DMA accelerator ever made for the IIe. I wanted
>one for years since I had a Ramfast Rev C. and actually could to have
>used DMA in a //e.

I had a 10-MHz RocketChip years ago (sold it to fund the purchase of a
ZipGS), and as I recall, it didn't do DMA.  With both the Apple DMA SCSI
card and rev. C RamFAST, DMA had to be disabled for the card to work.  

Even without DMA, though, the combination of the RocketChip and RamFAST was
obscenely fast.  I had AppleWorks files that took a couple hundred or so K
each (had a 1-MB RamWorks III to load them), and load/save times were cut
back drastically.

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