Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uicsrd!kai From: kai@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Ramfactor ad misleading Message-ID: <44600006@uicsrd> Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 19:41:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uicsrd.44600006 Posted: Thu Sep 3 19:41:00 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Sep-87 04:45:50 EDT References: <44600005@uicsrd> Lines: 44 Nf-ID: #R:uicsrd:44600005:uicsrd:44600006:000:2375 Nf-From: uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu!kai Sep 3 18:41:00 1987 Here's the latest on my ordeal with the RamFactor card. I called Applied Engineering today, and spoke with someone in Tech Support, and Chuck Carpenter in Sales. The Tech person tells me that PCPI sells the driver that will let my PCPI CP/M card use the ramfactor as a ramdisk. He also said that I was correct, only enhanced Apple IIe's and IIgs's can cold boot the Ramfactor (boot from power on). When I asked why the ad does not state this, he asked me to speak with Chuck Carpenter in sales. Mr Carpenter tells me that Applied Engineering sells the PCPI ramdisk driver software, and that PCPI doesn't even support CP/M anymore (which explains why I haven't seen any ads from them in the past few years). He also told me that Apple computers before the IIe do not search for a bootable device, and that I can make my Franklin Ace boot from the RamFactor by moving the disk controller from slot 6 to slot 5, and the Ramfactor from slot 7 to slot 6. As you've noticed, they conflict on both points, and each was half right. I ordered the PCPI driver from Applied Engineering ($30), and asked that they mention the availability of such software in future user guides. I cannot make my Franklin boot from the RamFactor no matter what slot the card is in, higher or lower than the disk controller. Only enhanced Apple IIe's and IIgs's understand that a Ramcard can be a bootable device. Apple's and clones before that only look for real disk controllers. I guess I will learn to live with what I have. Oh yes, Mr Carpenter also mentioned that the responce for the 2 to 16 Mb expansion card was not as high as they had hoped, which I interpret to mean they will not ever build one in the near future. However, he did say that they expect to ship a 2-4 Mb expansion card for the RamFactor beginning in November. I can't wait. One Mb is just not enough. #include Patrick Wolfe Internet: pat@kai.com System Manager UUCP: {seismo,ihnp4,uiucuxc}!kai.com!pat Kuck & Associates, Inc. Arpanet: pat%kailand@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu 1808 Woodfield Dr. Bitnet: pat%kailand@uiucuxc Savoy, IL USA 61874 CSnet: pat%kailand%uxc@uiuc.csnet Phone: 217-356-2288 Milnet: pat%kailand@uiucuxc.arpa Easylink: 6201 1628 Telex: 910 240 9772 (KUCK ASSOC)