dave@zehntel.uucp (Dave Funk) (01/14/88)
I finally managed to locate and purchase a 1750 REU for my C128, which wasn't easy. All the vendors who don't have it claim that Commodore has discontinued the product. Any truth to this? I seem to recall some discussion on the net about RAMdisk software being available for the REU's. Does anybody remember where/how to get it? I also seem to vaguely recall that such software is supposed to be on the disk shipped with the unit. Not true in my case. All I got was one disk - one side is CP/M 3.0 (which recognizes the REU as drive 'M:'); the other side contains a RAM test and some demo programs, but no RAMdisk. By the way, CP/M becomes a whole lot easier to use if you copy the entire CP/M disk into the 1750. Since drive 'M:' is all RAM, it is *fast*. Dave Funk ....!ucbvax!zehntel!dave Zehntel, Inc. ....!decvax!sytek!zehntel!dave 2625 Shadelands Drive ...."zehntel!dave"@BERKELEY Walnut Creek, CA 94598 (415) 932-6900 x309
fred@cbmvax.UUCP (Fred Bowen) (01/21/88)
In article <389@zehntel.UUCP>, dave@zehntel.uucp (Dave Funk) writes: > I finally managed to locate and purchase a 1750 REU for my C128, which > wasn't easy. All the vendors who don't have it claim that Commodore > has discontinued the product. Any truth to this? No. > I seem to recall some discussion on the net about RAMdisk software being > available for the REU's. Does anybody remember where/how to get it? As older inventory is replaced by new, so too will the old test/demo disk be replaced by a new one, with C64/128 versions of the RAMdisk on it. The latest RAMdisk (version 4.3) has been uploaded to places like QuantumLink, GEnie, Plink (I think), etc. I know that several of the newer demos are available from Q-Link. If there is a user group near you, you can probably get a copy there. I believe it may also be in TPUG's library by now, too. The files were deemed too large to post here on usenet. -- -- Fred Bowen uucp: {ihnp4|rutgers|caip}!cbmvax!fred arpa: cbmvax!fred@RUTGERS.EDU tele: 215 431-9100 Commodore Electronics, Ltd., 1200 Wilson Drive, West Chester, PA, 19380