dale@pro-colony.UUCP (System Operator) (05/10/88)
Well Joe, What about all of the people that bought an Orange Micro card, or an OctoRam. Is AE responsible for them as well. The plain fact is, Apple released designe guidelines for their machine. AE, Orange Micro, and MDIdeas all made cards to work according to Apples supplied specs. Apple made the mistake, not AE, Orange Micro, or MDIdeas. Why should these companies pay for Apple's mistake? AE offers a swap for $48.00. Not too bad a price when you consider that the only product on the market that had a problem has been discontinued. And why not ask AST why THEY didn't test their card before release? After all, all of the mentioned RAM cards were released and on the market well before the introduction of the AST Vision plus card. Re: RamKeeper, RamKeeper does not require the slotmover to use it with an Apple card, for TWO apple cards, yes, but for ONE apple card, no. Whoever told you that was mistaken. And with one Apple card it does not block slot 7, so there is no need whatsoever to have the slotmover with a single Apple card. As for it being a Battery BAcked up /RAMdisk, the ads have always said it would be accessed as a ROMdisk. They have also said that is was in effect a backed up RAMdisk to make to clearer to those people that thought they would have to burn their own EPROMs. The memory on the RamKeeper IS liner, maybe you mistaken the Memory Saver for the RamKeeper. The Memory Saver does not provide liner addressable memory. The RamKeeper also has a connector on it for an optional (as yet to be released) DMA card that is designed to make any third party memory card DMA compatible. The only thing in the ad that has changed is the picture of the card. The card was re-designed after problems were found and that is why the card looks (and is) very different from the first ads. It really sounds like someone gave you a lot of mis-information about the RamKeeper, or maybe you have someone else RAMcard and are upset because they didn't offer a solution to the 'DMA' problem like the guy in Call A.P.P.L.E. who was made that the AE expander wouldn't work with his memory card and that it just showed that AE was 'vindictive' in their programming. Sorry to take up so much space, but it is disturbing when I see mis-information floating around. Everybody has their right to their own opinion, I just want to make sure ithat it is not based on the wrong information. dale p.s., sorry I didn't get your name from the first message, I really didn't mean to make my first message so impersonal.