Re: Apple II 256K Memory Expansion Kit

["Peter Watson" <paw77@N_O_hotmail_S_P_A_M.com>]

<heuser.marcus@freenet.de> wrote in message 
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> The "slinky" card is a "normal" expansion card with up to 1MB (AFAIK).
> Used mostly as a ramdisk or for Appleworks. It has its own firmware.
> I guess it's called "slinky" because its a long and slim card.
> I read that they may be used with a GS but I haven't tried that.

This and other thoughts about the reason for the "Slinky" name may well be 
correct, but the starting point is that it was the internal development code 
name for the card.

It works perfectly well in my GS. In particular, it makes a much better RAM 
disk than the inbuilt GS RAM disk because it's much harder for it to get 
trashed if some program runs amok.
-- 
Peter Watson
-- Write to MS-DOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
-- Impossible!  ;-)