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Subject: The Works
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Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 13:58:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  8 13:58:00 1987
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Bob Soron:

Your friend may have found a use for slot 7.  I'm very happy with
my RAMFactor which is made to order for Slot 7.  It supports an
expanded AppleWorks desktop (essential on a ][+), and it can be
partitioned (if you want to buy enough memory) so that you can boot
both DOS 3.3 and ProDOS programs from it with PR#7.  AE also supplies
an Appleworks patch for the ][+.

My only caveat is that Appleworks plus a RAMFactor is many bucks just
for a flat filer.  Frankly, I'm still using Apple Quickfile on my //e,
a (gasp!) non-AppleWorks word processor, and the Spreadsheet 2.0 (from
the A.P.P.L.E.-Coop) and I'm happy.

If your friend is seriously considering the outlay for AppleWorks, then
I'd recommend looking at a //c (with the AE memory expander) or a
Laser 128 (which will accept a RAMFactor in its optional "slotbox").
The main reason I make the recommendation is that AppleWorks is really
a cripple without MacroWorks (or one of the other, similar memory resident
AppleWorks helpers) which won't work on a ][+ (because Apple memory resident
programs hide the code that "hooks" them to other software in the Auxilliary
memory "screen holes" which the ][+ ROM has no way of knowing about).