Re: Memory Card question (Thanks!)

["Ernest" <ernestls@attbi.NOSPAM.com>]

"David Empson" <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote in message
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> Ernest <ernestls@attbi.NOSPAM.com> wrote:
>
> > I have an Apple II memory expansion card #670-0024A 1985. It's a one meg
card
> > and it looks like it will work in my Apple IIe.
>
> As you suspected, that is the Apple II Memory Expansion Card.  It will
> work in an Apple ][, ][+, IIe or IIgs.  (It must be used in a standard
> slot for the IIe and IIgs.)
>
> > Can anyone confirm this, and if so, which slot should it go into?
>
> Whatever slot you like, except slot 3 (unless you want to lose 80-column
> mode).
>
> The card will act as a RAM disk for ProDOS or Pascal 1.3 without any
> special software, and is a bootable device for an enhanced IIe, so you
> should probably put in a lower numbered slot than your normal startup
> device.
>
> If you want to use it as a RAM disk in Apple II Pascal 1.3, it must be
> located in slot 4, 5 or 6.
>
> You can also use it as a RAM disk for DOS 3.3.  I believe it needs to be
> "initialized" by using the IN#n command to patch itself into DOS 3.3.
>
> AppleWorks 1.2 (?) and later include a driver for this card, allowing it
> to be used as expanded desktop space.  If you have both this card and an
> auxiliary slot card like a RamWorks, I can't tell you off-hand which one
> will be used first.  (I expect you could patch AppleWorks and/or remove
> some of the drivers if you wanted to force a particular card to be used
> as expanded desktop.)
>
> > Also, will the RAM chips from a standard Apple IIgs 1meg memory card work
in
> > this card?
>
> Yes.  The opposite isn't necessarily true - the Apple II card may use
> slower RAM, which won't work reliably in a IIgs memory expansion card.
>
> --
> David Empson
> dempson@actrix.gen.nz

Thanks!