Re: Please help me pick out a II GS

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

> Hello.  I think the ROM 03 has 1.125MB RAM on the motherboard, and the ROM
> 00 and ROM 01 have 256KB, like Bill said.  Check the FAQ for more
> information.  It lists several differences.

My favorite thing on the rom3 is still being able to use some slots as the
motherboard
spec and the your card at the same time.

> > (2) What sort of GS memory card?  I've seen a bunch on eBay that say
> > fully populated, and it means 1MB.  Can't you get up to an 8MB card? I
> > think I saw another one recently that was 4MB.
>
> The "fully populated" 1MB card is the Apple brand card.  Other
manufacturers
> made cards that hold up to 8MB RAM.  I bought a Sirius RAM card from
> www.allelec.com.  It had 4MB of RAM for $79, plus about $10 for shipping.
> They have an 8MB model for $99.  It uses 30-pin SIMM's.  Some of the older
> cards use hard to find types of RAM.

I have the zip ram packages if you get one of the older, specifically the
Ram-GS.
Get their 2 mb version, it's cheaper and I have lots of 30 pin simms I can
let
you have cheap if you don't have any. Maybe $.50-$1.00 each.

>     If you got a ROM 03 with the 1.125 MB RAM, the Apple card fully
> populated would get you to 2.125MB, which is not too bad and fairly cheap.
> You should be able to find a ROM 03 box with fully populated 1MB Apple
card
> for under $20 on www.ebay.com.

No lie there, eBay is loaded. One on there has/had SCSI and both floppy
drives,
with monitor no less for I think $60.00 starting bid, but get a barebones GS
and
order a MicroDrive 800 mb from me. I load it with GS/OS 6.0.1 for you, plus
I throw in a copy of the OS disks so you don't need to download and mess
with
trying to make them.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises
http://garberstreet.netfirms.com



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