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From: mathew@mwowm.mantis.co.uk (mathew)
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Subject: Re: External RAM-disk
Summary: Been there, done that...
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Date: 17 Mar 91 23:48:00 GMT
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In <7812@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk>, Nick Rothwell writes:
>This reminds be of an idea I had a while ago. I was thinking of building
>an external RAM-disk (floppy) for a Mac, with a meg or two of RAM in
>it. It would have loads of LED's to show read/write to the various sectors.
>Never got round to it (besides, the interface circuitry would probably
>have been really messy). It would have looked nice, though.

It's been done. Watford Electronics designed and built an external RAM disk
for the BBC Micro.


mathew