Re: RAM-4-GS testimonials

["Warren Ernst" <wernst@gmail.com>]

I guess I don't get all the venom being directed at Bill here. I must
have missed something.

I have also noticed that most of the rude comments are being left via
email addresses with no or virtually no posting history, at least
according to Google, and with no real names. That seems rather cowardly
to me. Maybe I'm missing something on this too.

But at any rate, here is a FAVORABLE post regarding the RAM-4-GS memory
card. I have one my my ROM3 GS, and I couldn't be happier with it. It
takes up hardly any room, recycles what would have been tossed but are
perfectly good 30-pin SIMMS, and it works with everything I throw at
it.

My Zip-GSX may only be running at 8 MHz, but it has no problems with
the memory card. If I set it as a large ramdisk, it functions
flawlessly too. GS/OS thinks it is perfectly OK. It also seems to work
fine with the new hardware recently developed, such as the UtherNet
card or the CFFA card.

And finally, as someone who vividly remembers spending $120 for a bare
ram card in 1988, and then another $330 dollars for 32 individual ram
chips in order to get a single megabyte, I think it is priced very well
too.

If there is any problem I have with it, it is that it is too small. ;-)
I was able to accidentally insert it backwards into the memory slot,
but this was only because I was an idiot and didn't read the freaking
writing on the card that clearly stated which way to insert it. But to
Bill's credit, even after powering up the computer with the card
installed backwards, the computer and card were just fine. It isn't
Bill's fault that the slot isn't keyed one-way.

And with all that said, here's who I am:

Warren Ernst
former Beagle Bros tech support
currently a journalist and reviewer for PC Magazine and CPU Magazine
wernst@gmail.com