Re: RAM cards for IIe

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

"Don Bruder" <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote in message
news:VFhLc.3363$54.45362@typhoon.sonic.net...
: In article <20040720183153.19209.00002065@mb-m04.aol.com>,
:  mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:
:
: > Martin Doherty asked:
: >
: > >Do you know if the Q-RAM IIe is softswitch-compatible with
Apple's 1MB
: > >AUX RAM card, or the RAMWorks series from Applied
Engineering, or do
: > >each of these card families employ their own home-grown
control methods
: > >that make software compatibility a PITA? (I assign a 99%
probabiliity to
: > >the latter, but thought I'd ask).
: > >
: > >Would anyone care to do a knowledge dump about the various
AUX RAM
: > >cards, how they work, how common applications can take
advantage of them
: > >etc.?
: > >
: > >I suppose they MUST conform to Apple's specification to some
extent at
: > >least, if only to support DHRG?
: >
: > Correct.
: >
: > And all later models, like the Q-RAM, conform to the RAMWorks
extended
: > standard, since it established a _de facto_ bank-switching
extension to
: > Apple's standard.
:
: Wasn't that particular "standard" referred to as "Slinky"? Or
was that
: the Apple standard? I remember something about "Slinky" memory
cards
: that couldn't be talked to in quite the same way as you'd talk
to an
: actual Apple card, but with the passing years, the specifics
have done
: the old "use it or lose it" thing on me. As in, "I didn't use
it, I
: lost it"...

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)

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