jeff1@garfield.UUCP (Jeff Sparkes) (10/29/85)
I'm going to build a ramdisk for my coco. It's going to have 256K (to start) and it will be hooked up to the cartridge slot. Can someone give me the address of someone who supplies Y-connectors for the cartridge slot, preferably Canadian. Also, does anyone know if I can safely hook up the chips to power supply coming out of the bus? There are going to be 8 or 9 256kbit chips, three octal latches and a couple of other 74xx chips. Will I be able to power this from my coco, or will I have to add a power supply to my board? I'm going to modify the disk driver and make this thing look like a disk to OS9. Just think about it, it'll be faster than a hard disk! I'm going to use 24 bits for the address making up to 16 megs possible! Teach those IBM PC's a lesson! Actually, the next step is probably paging/virtual memory off the ramdisk. I'd like to hear some comments on this, especially from anyone who's already tried this. Also, address/prices of Y-connectors, and even places that supply 256k chips. (41256??) Jeff Sparkes jeff1@garfield.uucp