Re: Apple II 256K Memory Expansion Kit

[Greg Buchner <null@none.invalid>]

In article <1172397475.803640.22900@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
 heuser.marcus@freenet.de wrote:

> On Feb 25, 9:54 am, "Payton Byrd" <plb...@bellsouth.no.spam.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > What the difference between a "slinky" memory card and the
> > 820-0067-B "AIIE 80COL/64K MEMORY EXPANSION"?
> 
> 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.

I seem to recall that it's called a slinky because you access the card 
one byte at a time through the cards firmware instead of just reading an 
address.

Greg B.

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