Re: BACKUP II - NO BUFFERS AVAILABLE

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Forty Two" <FourtyTwo@NoAddress.invalid> wrote in message
news:1107719016.f2ea76a386156f335461686fc73e54b1@1usenet...
: On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 10:01:48 -0500, "Bill Garber"
: <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
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: >
:
: >: PS: it is a IIe Platinum with 128K. When I exited out of Basic to run
: >: it, all was fine. This 128K leaves me with a dinky 64K ram drive,
: >: hmm.. I wonder if I can find RamWorks or something. :-)
: >
: >Let me check. I might have another RamWorks lying around.
: >Also, the Slinky ram card will do the trick for you as well.
: >I may have one I can part with also.
: >
:
: Let me know. I am reluctant to bang these backup disks too much, since
: I don't know how fragile they are. When I get my Flash mass storage
: card, I can transfer everything to it. But that likely won't be for a
: month or so.
:
: In the meantime, I tried copying some files I wanted to mess with, off
: a 3.5" backup to a new 3.5" disk. Having only one 3.5" drive, it
: didn't take me long to see the error of my ways. :-)  I then tried
: copying batches of them off the backup to a 5.25" drive, then from
: there to a new 3.5" disk. This was better, but it started making me
: wish I had a decent sized RAM drive.

Not to work my way out of a sale, but with the CFFA,
if that is what you're getting, you won't need a ramdrive.
That'll give you plenty of space to copy files around your
system.

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