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From: jetzer@studsys.mu.edu (jetzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: 256K on Transwarp
Message-ID: <159@studsys.mu.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 88 01:46:09 GMT
References: <8804240141.AA12784@wpi.local> <2685@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Organization: Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Summary: memory ...

In article <2685@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>, tsang@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Tsang) writes:
> In article <8804240141.AA12784@wpi.local> MPENDER@WPI.BITNET writes:
> >I don't suppose some friendly person out there has patches for
> >appleworks to make it work with a Transwarp card at the full 256K, or even
> >128K for appleworks and 128K ramdrive.  Patches or a driver for prodos
> >to make it work like a 256K ramdisk?

> >Does AE have them?

> Hah!!!  As far as I've been able to find, there is NO WAY to access the
> other 128k of the Transwarp card.  Some of my friends and associates figure
> that there is 256k on the board for two reasons only:

> a) 8 256k chips take less room than 16 64k chips.
> b) They can claim 256K onboard (physically correct).


My understanding concerning the 256K on board is that (at least at the time,
don't know about now :-(  ) it was cheaper to put 1 set of 256K RAMs
on the card than it was to put two sets of 64Ks.  Of course, the 
one-set-of-chips-takes-less-room-than-two-sets factor may have figured into 
their cost analysis.

The only way that I know that you can use any of the memory on the card is
if you have an Apple ][+ and put it in slot 0.

(I read several reviews, as well as the owner's manual of the Transwarp,
since I was considering buying it.  Decided on the Zip Chip instead.  If
it would ever get here . . . )



-- 
Mike Jetzer
"Hack first, ask questions later."