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From: gordon@alberta.uucp (Gordon Atwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Applied Engineer -- Appleworks and ORCA/M  -- Questions
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Date: 13 Oct 89 18:40:07 GMT
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I just moved into a much nicer working environment on my Apple IIe.  I
expanded to 1Mb ram with Applied Engineering's RAMWORKS card.  So far
I have encounted only one problem.  The software test for the ram chips
reports between 8-10 as bad.  Usually the same chips.  But if I power down,
swap a pair of chips, and try again, I get an all good report.  So far I've
experienced no memory loss or screwups.

     Is the software faulty, the power supply, the chip(s), or the board?
Any thoughts (preferably based on past experience)?

The accompanying softward modifies Appleworks to support the expanded memory
and seems to be working quite nicely.  However, my Prodos ORCA/M software
allows for only a 64k ramdisk under /RAM and includes no software to take
advantage of the additional memory.  Has anyone developed their own patches
to Orca to get it up with a large ramdisk (and may I have it?).  Does anyone
know if a new release of Orca has included this (I've got release 4.0b [I
think])!.

Any relevant comments you'd care to pass on based on past experience with these
products would be welcome.

Thanks,
G.H.A.