Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Memory expansion Message-ID: <8704270838.aa16738@SPARK.BRL.ARPA> Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 09:22:00 EDT Article-I.D.: SPARK.8704270838.aa16738 Posted: Mon Apr 27 09:22:00 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Apr-87 02:28:36 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 39 For Bruce Jones and others: Funny you should should mention that limitation of Apple memory cards. I'd heard about the problem with its inability to recognize extra desk top for earlier versions of AppleWorks, but I bought AE's RAMFactor because there are several other things that RAMFactor will do that the Apple card won't. For example, you can boot from the RAMFactor. The RAMFactor can be divided into as many as 9 partitions (although only one partition can be accessed at a time (rebooting is necessary to change partitions). One partition can be Apple desktop (the card comes with software for modifying AppleWorks to recognize the RAMFactor). I have a 400K DOS 3.3 RAM disk as one partition. I'm not sure, but I don't believe the Apple card supports DOS 3.3 The RAMFactor also is compatible with the Apple card, so software written for the Apple card will work with RAMFactor, and the RAMFactor works in the IIgs. It seems to me that I read somewhere that the Apple card also keeps its FAT (File Allocation Tables) in main memory where it can get whacked by software or by rebooting (boo). The RAMFactor keeps its FAT on the card where it's relatively protected. I say "relatively" because I did manage to clobber a partition fooling with some new "buggy" software (it probably would have crashed a disk if I'd been running it off a floppy). I also got the battery backup. It's expensive, but I recommend it; it simply takes too long to load 750K or more from floppy disks everytime the Apple is turned on. I doubt that the software that comes with the RAMFactor which modifies AppleWorks will work with the Apple card. I'll bet it depends on the RAMFactor's firmware, however if you have several Apple memory cards already, you might buy one RAMFactor and try it.