Re: Apple II Memory Expansion Card

["Henry" <apl2research(.a.t.)comcast.net>]

Hey Matt.

RAMCharger!  That's it!  I was trying to remember what it was called.  I had 
seen some RAMKeepers come up for sale on eBay but they were all for IIgs 
boards and not the RAMFactor.

I believe the only thing you need is to connect power to the board and it's 
now a NVRAM disk.  NV as in Non-Volatile - incase someone didn't know.

Anyone know what the pinouts are for the RAMFactor connector on the end of 
the card?  It's the 4 pin red connector where the RAMCharger would plug in 
to.  If I have that then I can finally do some testing without worry of 
damaging my board.  Some NiMH batteries might just work well.

-- 
Henry S. Courbis
www.GSE-Reactive.com
Apple II Series Legacy Hardware - Come take a look at what we have to offer!

"mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Warren Ernst wrote:
>
>> This is a "Slinky-style" Ram card. Applied Engineering made a version
>> of this card called the RamFactor card, which I presently have in my
>> //e.
>
>> And then I would leave the Apple on for months and months at a time.
>> Really. I think my record was 7 months in 1991.
>
> AE used to sell a "RamCharger" add on that was a power supply plus
> battery in a box. You left the power on to the RamCharger box and
> therefore never lost any contents. I think a fully populated RamFactor
> was 5mb, if you had the add on memory board.
>
> Anyone who had one these days could probably very easily recreate the
> RamCharger feature, and it's also probably very simple hack the Apple
> Slinky to behave the same way.
>
> Of course these days, the CFFA card basically provides you a Slinky
> card, but with flash ram instead, they do however run considerably
> slower than Slinky cards from what I understand.
>
> Matt
>