Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdahl!drivax!davison
From: davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Spirit Technologies (Formerly: internal RAM expansion)
Message-ID: <2903@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 22:25:53 GMT
References: <378@boole.acc.virginia.edu> <10001@ut-sally.UUCP>
Reply-To: davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison)
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Organization: Digital Research, Inc.
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In article <10001@ut-sally.UUCP> joe@ut-sally.UUCP (Joe Hitchens) writes:
>... I also recalled the 
>METAL SHIELDING that goes right on top of that board with the TALL jumper
>pins sticking up! (You can see where this is going, can't you).

I have also recently installed a Spirit Technologies RAM board (1.5M + clock)
in my Amiga.  Besides having to trim the PC board a little to fit my EARLY
model A1000 (later models apparently don't have this problem), I left the metal
shielding off (for now) to avoid any contact with the board.  Things are
working great, with one minor exception:

The "ReadClock" software supplied with my board began setting the Amiga's date
one day too far starting with the new year.  Though the program displays, say,
"01/01/88", it sets the OS clock to "01/02/88".  To get around this, I have
set the date back a day, and now use "Date" in my startup to display the date
as the Amiga sees it.  I think I'll write my own version of read/setclock soon
just for kicks.

Another question I have concerns the version of VDK that was supplied with
the board.  I have heard that the RELEASE version of VDK is supposed to
display a window letting you know the current status of disk creation/recovery.
The version I have does nothing visible.  Could someone send me the correct
version?  Has anyone contacted Spirit Technologies about this?
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 Wayne Davison					      ...amdahl!drivax!davison
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