Re: IIGS memory card

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

On Apr 14, 8:18 pm, "magnusfalkirk" <dean.pha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I recently bought a GS through Ebay and the picture on the auction
> shows what appears to be an Apple made memory card installed and about
> half full. Cruising the web looking for info on the Apple memory card
> doesn't turn up much. I did see that as far as Apple is concerned the
> card can only hold 1 meg of ram.

AFAIK Apple made at least two different RAM cards for the GS.
One with a maximum of 1 MB and one with 4 MB. See here:
http://www.apple2gs.republika.pl/eng.html

> I was wondering, is 1 meg the max for this card or could I maybe make
> it a 4 meg card by installing larger ram chips, like the 1 meg sets
> available through GSE-Reactive?

The standard 1MB-card can only be upgraded with some major surgery.
See above link, too...

I would recommend to either upgrade the card to 1 MB or getting
another (possibly bigger) card. The 1 MB cards are usually dirt cheap.
With 2,25 MB you can comfortably run most applications, anyway.

If you want to use a large ramdisk or need more RAM you should
get a 4MB card. Then you'll have 5,25MB in the ROM03 which
surely is enough for pretty much anything.


> Also does this card work with the ROM 03 motherboard or just the
> ROM 01 motherboard that is installed in this computer?

The 1MB-card should work in both variants.

bye
Marcus