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From: scott@hpuslma.STLOUIS.HP.COM (Jim Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: rom disk
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Date: 21 Dec 90 15:00:53 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard St. Louis, Mo.
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As an addendum to Henry's comments on 'battery backed ROM disks,' Checkmate
went out of business and the company that picked up some of their line of
products decided not to support the Memorysaver card.  My Memorysaver died
a few months ago, so now I am back to trying A.E's. Ramkeeper once they
send me a new I.C. that will work with either my A.I. or S & S 4MB RAM
board.  One caveat with the Ramkeeper, too, A.E. doesn't manufacture it
anymore either, but they do still support it; my current one was purchased
used and I added the latest firmware upgrade, Rev. 1.7 (1.4 was probably
sufficient for my IIGS ROM 01 machine).

Being spoiled by having GS/OS and Appleworks GS in ROM for extremely fast
boot up and access 'forced' me to try implementing it with the Ramkeeper
once again.  My first one wouldn't handle both 256K and 1MB chip RAM cards
and that is why I originally bought the Memorysaver.  

By the way A.E. tech. support told me that the Ramkeeper wasn't selling
enough to warrant its continuation; their Vulcan hard disks are what they
are pushing for mass storage and faster file access vs. 3.5" floppies.

Jim