Re: AW5 on //c+

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Bill Garber wrote:

>"Simon Williams" <spam@luddite.ca> wrote in message
>1g80e6j.suecnp15azejmN%spam@luddite.ca">news:1g80e6j.suecnp15azejmN%spam@luddite.ca...
>: Bill Garber <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
>:
>: > I would say that if AW2 is using 128K RAM,
>: > which is ALL that the IIc owns without a
>: > RAM expansion card then S3,D2, which would
>: > reside in the 64K aux ram, can't work.
>:
>: I should have mentioned that I tried cataloging /RAM after
>booting
>: ProDOS, not Appleworks.
>: Bill, Maybe that //c CFFA card your working on could include an
>extra
>: meg of RAM ;-)
>
>Hardly.
>Slot 1:serial printer port,
>Slot 2:serial modem port,
>Slot 3:80 Column video/64K aux ram,
>Slot 4:Ram card, now CFFA2C,
>Slot 5:External Drive port,
>Slot 6:Internal Drive port, cabled to outside,
>Slot 7:Game/Mouse port.
>
>Space left by moving Internal Drive
>to outside can be used to install a
>3.5" IDE hard drive instead of CF card
>adapter and CF card.
>
>This is the plan, and so far, after much
>discussion, will be how it will be. I'd
>like to add the RAM to it, but to keep cost
>to a minimum we have decided to only put in
>the drive controller, since it's going to
>be in the physical space that the RAM card
>would take up. I'll bring it up again and
>see what we can do. Maybe a later revision.

Adding bank-switched RAM (like RAMworks) would not take up
any slot addresses, and 1MB of RAM today is a fraction of one
x8 chip (though x4 DRAMs are much more common).

-michael

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