tim@seismo.UUCP (10/09/83)
A company called Apparat in Denver, CO has two boards for the IBM PC called the COMBO II card and the RAM II card. I am now running the COMBO II card which boasts a clock/calendar, parallel port, serial port, game adapter (which they should rename "mouse adapter"), and a reset button. As a matter of fact, I got the first board that they ever manufactured, and it seems to be running beautifully. I mention my experience with the COMBO II, because I would expect that the RAM II card is just as good. The card will hold 512K, and is capable of using 256K RAM chips when they become available. It comes with RAM disk software, but they do not yet have print spooler software. The catch is that either card alone is only $189. I have compared to ANY board advertised in PC, PC World, and Byte, and I have found that there isn't a card to compete with this one. (The RAM card comes populated to 64K for the $189.) Now, get this. If you buy both cards, it only costs you (I think) $258, and they can piggyback so that they take only one slot in the PC. I think they are a great buy. Any comments, I can be reached at Tim@cit-vax