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From: tlpmp@homxb.UUCP (Penrod)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Applied Engineering RamFactor Card
Message-ID: <2028@homxb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 13:08:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 13 13:08:30 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Oct-86 06:32:26 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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To make my Apple ][e even more useful to my family (and me),
I have been considering ways that we can make our favorite
applications programs more easily accessible.  This is
becoming mor important to me as my wife has a progreesive
illness, and although she likes to us the computer for
church related activities, handling floppies is becoming
more difficult for her.  Therefore, I've been thinking along
the lines of a hard disk until I saw an ad for the RamFactor
card from Applied Engineering.  I spoke with a technical
support type at AE, and the RamFactor may be just what we're
looking for.  I already have the RamWorks II with 640K RAM
and the Transwarp (AE) accelerator.  The applications we 
use 95% of the time include:

	1. Appleworks (expanded for the RamWorks II)
	2. Dollars and Sense (128K, non-copy protected)
	3. Print Shop

I would like to load these into the RamFactor (with battery
backup) so that the family could get virtually instantaneous
access to the applications.  I understand from talking with
Broaderbund that their policy is not to support easy access
to their software, so its questionable if Print Shop could
be loaded.

My question is for anyone out there with RamFactor
experience.  Is my "dream" achievable with Appleworks and
the non-copy protected Dollars & Sense?  Any input about
this would be appreciated.

By the way.  With the expanded RAM from the RamWorks, a
3.5MHz clock from the Transwarp, and a battery backed up
RamDrive, it seems the ][e really becomes super-useful.
How close to the ][gs would an '816 processor upgrade to the
RamWorks card and an added sound board make the above ][e
configuration?

Terry Penrod
AT&T Network Systems
Holmdel, NJ