mathew@mwowm.mantis.co.uk (mathew) (03/18/91)
In <7812@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk>, Nick Rothwell writes: >This reminds be of an idea I had a while ago. I was thinking of building >an external RAM-disk (floppy) for a Mac, with a meg or two of RAM in >it. It would have loads of LED's to show read/write to the various sectors. >Never got round to it (besides, the interface circuitry would probably >have been really messy). It would have looked nice, though. It's been done. Watford Electronics designed and built an external RAM disk for the BBC Micro. mathew
gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Dave Gilbert) (03/19/91)
I've got a PMS 64K ram disc on my model B - fully battery backed as well, at one point we were thinking of the Morley one which gives about 1 to 2Mb of stuff - but the cost is getting to the point now that you may as well by a hard drive. Dave -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Dave Gilbert - gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk - The MTBF of a piece of equipment - - G7FHJ@GB7NWP - is inversly proportional to its - ------------------------------------------- importance -