Re: RAM cards for IIe

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

"Paul R. Santa-Maria" <paulrsm@buckeye-express.com> wrote in
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: Bill Garber wrote:
: > what is referred to as "Slinky" is an expansion
: > slot ram card that operates as a ramdisk. I have
: > a couple of them and if you have one in and load
: > Apple II DeskTop or MouseDesk, it installs onto
: > the Slinky and then all warm boots are much faster.
: > They are also nice on a single drive system, makes
: > it easier to duplicate a disk. Just copy it to the
: > Slinky and then to the new disk. A 1MB ramdisk on
: > a II, II+, IIe is great, and you can also have a
: > RamWorks, etc.... in the AUX slot.  :o)
:
: Okay, Bill, now that you have the 4MB IIgs
: RAM card done, how about a Slinky clone
: that holds 64MB (four 16MB SIMMs)?
:
: I think the Slinky uses three bytes for
: addressing, so 16MB (four 4MB SIMMs or
: one 16MB SIMM) might be the limit for
: compatibility.
:
: Even 4MB (four 1MB SIMMs) would
: still be nice in an Apple IIe.

You know, a 4MB expansion slot ramdisk is quite
possible. If done in ProDOS only mode it should
be fairly easy. Actually a large enough flash
ram would be better because you could write to
it and not lose what you write. You already do
have a 4 x 32MB ramdisk in the CFFA.  :O)

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