Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ncar!ames!eos!aurora!labrea!csli!crimmins From: crimmins@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Mark Crimmins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: extra memory for the IIc Message-ID: <3057@csli.STANFORD.EDU> Date: 24 Mar 88 06:34:36 GMT References: <8493@reed.UUCP> Reply-To: crimmins@csli.UUCP (Mark Crimmins) Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U. Lines: 25 In article mw22+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Alan Wertheim) writes: >I have an Apple //c with a 512k Checkmate MultiRam card. (See their ads in >Nibble, A+, etc. for prices.) > >Mainly I use the 512k as a ramdisk, using the software that comes with the >card. I can load all of Appleworks and all of the Pinpoint Spelling Checker, >with dictionary, onto the card at once. (It takes a few minutes to do this, >though.) > I have a 1 Meg Z-Ram Ultra II; I use a 768K ram-disk. It used to take me over 3 minutes to load it up with all the stuff I keep on it (from floppies). Then I tried Glen Bredon's Backup and Restore programs which are bundled with his $40 ProSel package (a nice deal, even if there are a few bugs here and there). With Restore, my load-up time is cut by a whole lot -- something like 70%. I used to use the Applied Engineering Autocopy program. Now I'm not as upset about turning my //c off, or using a program like MouseTalk, which nukes ram-disks (but a new version is about to be released which'll fix this). So even if you don't like Bredon's ProSel selector (I don't), there's lots of other useful stuff in the package that's worth the dough. Mark Crimmins (crimmins@csli.stanford.edu)