Re: Counting Memory on II+ / IIe

["Jason Whorton" <NOspam@worldnet.att.net>]

"Intelligoth" <no@spam.ever> wrote in message
news:Xns93456AF8B375nospamever@216.166.71.230...
> Are there any utilities that allow you to display the installed amount of
RAM on an Apple II+ or IIe?
> I'm wanting something similar to a PC BIOS Startup screen that counts and
checks the RAM on boot-up.
> I know that I will have to incorporate it into the HELLO file for RAM to
be displayed on boot.
>
> Reason I ask is that I have a couple of Memory cards for my Apples but
don't know how much physical
> RAM is installed on them.
>
> Also, I have Z80 cards for both my Apples, but what are these used for?  I
never had Z80 expansions
> installed back in the 80's when I cut my teeth on these systems, but I've
managed to find a box of spare
> cards from a local liquidator and included were 2 Z80s.
>
> Cheers
> -Ed

Hello.  As best I remember, there was a utility on the ProDOS disk I had
that told you how much RAM you had and a brief description of each card (a
few words) in the machine.
    A Z-80 card is for running CP/M software.  It was a very popular OS back
then for other machines.

Hope this helps,
Jason Whorton