Re: 48K banked memory

[robc638@startmail.ca (Robert C.)]

"Paul R. Santa-Maria" <paulrsm@buckeye-express.com> wrote in message news:<4160D4C9.A2D862F8@buckeye-express.com>...
> "Robert C." wrote:
> > Answering Rob Jones' question, "A Solid-State Drive for the ][+" (see
> > question somewhere on this Board), I got thinking about a way of
> > bank-switching 48K blocks on the Apple 2 plus.
> 
> If you do that then you will end up with yet another
> incompatible-with-everything-else memory expansion.

> One of the early Apple II memory expansion schemes was the
> Cramapple modification.  It replaced the 16KB RAM chips
> with 64KB RAM chips and selected the bank using the game
> port annunciators.
> 
> ************************************************************

I read up on the Cramapple modification and you're right: to add more
memory with no software to go with it is useless. As it is put in this
website (http://linux.monroeccc.edu/~paulrsm/dg/dg11.htm),

     "Since lots of 256K expansion boards and lots of Cramapple
      modifications are being sold and there is absolutely NO 
      commercial software, where does that leave us? It leaves us
      with a lot of unusable RAM, that's where it leaves us!"

OK, Scrap that project.

Now, if someone could direct me towards a method of adding a better
storage device, such as a Hard Drive, for the Apple ][+, I would
appriciate it.

Robert.