craparotta@kyoa.DEC.COM (Physical T5--Virtual T7) (05/13/88)
Dale, About the DMA issue, what you have to realize is that what APPLE did was to give out Pre-Release info for the //GS to all developers. From what I know nothing was written in stone. If they made a mistake on the paperwork thats besides the point. The POINT is that I bought a AE GSram card for $170.-- (?)and now I have to pay AE another $48.-- to get it to work right??? No Way!!! It's a little over there cost to fix it also?? I the CUSTOMER should not be liable for AE's problem with Apple. Thats AE's problem. What alot of people forget is that Apple also SELLS add on cards... I think that Apple was nice enough to give them the specs in the first place. In any case my GSram is/was probably incinerated by now as it went right into the GARBAGE.... Ramkeeper: Your right that if you have one Apple card that you do not need the slot mover.. I gotta read closer next time.. BUT....In the March A+ the ad says ELECTRONIC HARD DISK...Not ROM...Also the ad states "Configure Kilobytes or Megabytes of instant ROM storage".. Why do they [and Checkmate] call it ROM?? I thought ROM meant "READ ONLY MEMORY".. Although I/we know what they mean, what about the non-technical user.. Will he or she?? The reason I bring this up is that I have a AST memory card.. Now I have ROMS on that, that the smartport configures as Slot 2 drive 1. The Ramkeeper does this also.. It would have been better if they just left it as BBU RAM (slot 5 dr 2) and let us BOOT to that..As for the memory being LINEAR.. Page 3 states that if you put a second card in THAT is a Apple Card, Multiram GS, OctoRam or Rampack 4GS THEN it WILL BE NON-LINEAR.. Looks likThe ads have changed alot. re:June A+ is in fact true then state it!!! I'm glad they'll be supporting DMA card of different types also. That as yet to be announced card will probably be their DIGITIZER that was promised a long time ago.. As for being sorry for taking up so much space, I'm really not. This is an information net and I personally have been helped by many people on here. [THANK YOU ALL] At times things are brought out not to HURT anyone/company but it has to be said. It might help YOU sometime in the future. I still think AE is a very good company and have some excellent products. They've really grown tremendously over the past years because of that. I just think they NOW have some of there priorities screwed up. Joe Disclaimer: The above opinions are mine alone and not that of my employer.. They don't listen to me much anyway..:-)