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    From willi@willi@wilserv.com (Willi Kusche) to comp.sys.apple2 on Sunday, July 13, 2003 15:31:15
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    Hi!

    I have a bunch of RAMFactor cards that test OK, using the AE test
    program, in a IIe. But none of those cards work in either ROM 01 IIgs
    that I tried. What am I doing wrong? Do I need a ROM 03 IIgs?

    Willi
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  • From Bill Garber@willy46pa@comcast.net to comp.sys.apple2 on Sunday, July 13, 2003 18:52:50
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    "Willi Kusche" <willi@wilserv.com> wrote in message news:3d7aa99a.0307131345.197197d4@posting.google.com...
    Hi!

    I have a bunch of RAMFactor cards that test OK, using the AE test program, in a IIe. But none of those cards work in either ROM 01 IIgs
    that I tried. What am I doing wrong? Do I need a ROM 03 IIgs?

    Willi

    I did some Googling when I discovered I bought a lot of
    cards that may contain a RamFactor and also have a friend
    who is trading me one for other things, and found that most
    everything referring to the RamFactor memory card is for
    IIe. I think the IIgs only accepts Ram cards in the memory
    expansion slot, but I am not sure. How many of those cards
    have you got? I mean, what is "a bunch"?

    Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises };-)
    Web Site - http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
    Email - willy46pa@comcast.net



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  • From Wayne Stewart@waynes@telus.dotnet to comp.sys.apple2 on Sunday, July 13, 2003 23:25:26
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    Willi Kusche wrote:
    Hi!

    I have a bunch of RAMFactor cards that test OK, using the AE test program, in a IIe. But none of those cards work in either ROM 01 IIgs
    that I tried. What am I doing wrong? Do I need a ROM 03 IIgs?

    Willi

    I've used the ramfactor in both a ROM 1 and a ROM 3 with no difficulty.
    Just make sure the slot you install it in is set to "Your Card". If
    you're using GSOS it'll show up on the desktop as a RAMdisk. If you're
    running ProDOS 8 then it'll show up as a RAMdisk in whatever slot you
    have it in.

    The ramfactor isn't a particularly fast card. If you have a hard drive,
    it may be faster than the ramfactor. The ramfast SCSI card with a fast
    hard drive easily beats the ramfactor. I never tried comparing the
    ramfactor with other SCSI or ide cards so I don't know how it compares
    to them for speed.

    Wayne

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  • From Kim Heui Jung@spix2000@kornet.net to comp.sys.apple2 on Tuesday, July 15, 2003 23:07:35
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    RamFactor works on any Apple II with expansion slot.

    Kim

    Bill Garber wrote:
    "Willi Kusche" <willi@wilserv.com> wrote in message news:3d7aa99a.0307131345.197197d4@posting.google.com...

    Hi!

    I have a bunch of RAMFactor cards that test OK, using the AE test >>program, in a IIe. But none of those cards work in either ROM 01 IIgs
    that I tried. What am I doing wrong? Do I need a ROM 03 IIgs?

    Willi


    I did some Googling when I discovered I bought a lot of
    cards that may contain a RamFactor and also have a friend
    who is trading me one for other things, and found that most
    everything referring to the RamFactor memory card is for
    IIe. I think the IIgs only accepts Ram cards in the memory
    expansion slot, but I am not sure. How many of those cards
    have you got? I mean, what is "a bunch"?

    Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises };-)
    Web Site - http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
    Email - willy46pa@comcast.net



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