dwayne@vaxb.acs.unt.edu (06/09/90)
has anyone here had any experience with the GS Sauce card from Harris Labs? It apparantly uses 1 meg simms modules and holds up to 4 meg on the board. The board can be purchased with 256k on it for about $65 and then shopping for inexpensive simms would be a great way to bump up memory on a GS. Any comments? thanks, dwayne dwayne@vaxa.acs.unt.edu
stgeorge@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Steve George) (06/10/90)
I've had one for about 4 months now and its great. Bought the card empty and populated it with 80ns "Fast Page" mac-style SIMMs. After educating about 6 mailorder companies that there is such a product (the IIGS) most couldn't believe that ANY Apple II computer could possibly use SIMMs, let along Fast Page ones. Not a single dealer I called (out of the back of MacLeak) had EVER heard of a IIGS! Its full at 4 Megs and resides in the front slot of a Checkmate Memory Saver. The (default) 6 AA nicads keep it powered just over 3 hours. In comparison, the nicads lasted about2 when the MS contained 1 Apple 1 Meg cards. So far only one program has choked on it, but the upgrade solved that. (AW 2.0/1? gave the bogus numbers of having a desktop of 6+ Megs, and promptly died into the monitor. AW 3.0 lives happily with it.) And, does the machine ever run cooler now! :) The SIMMS don't get much over slightly-warm to the touch if that. Got mine from a very knowledgeable fella at KAT, 8423 W 89th St., Overland Park, KS 66212-3039 (913) 642-4611 Tell him I sent ya. (No association except as a satisfied customer.) uucp: crash!orbit!pnet51!stgeorge arpa: crash!orbit!pnet51!stgeorge@nosc.mil inet: stgeorge@pnet51.cts.com
gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (06/12/90)
In article <2654@orbit.cts.com> stgeorge@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Steve George) writes: >Its full at 4 Megs and resides in the front slot of a Checkmate Memory Saver. Another widely used SIMM-based Apple IIGS memory expansion card is MDIdeas' OctoRAM, which accommodates up to 8 each either 256KB or 1MB SIMMs, in powers of two. If populated with no more than 4 SIMMs, the OctoRAM appears to be DMA compatible, and if fully populated with 1MB SIMMs for a total of 8MB it does work with the Apple High-Speed SCSI Card, which doesn't use DMA when accessing the upper 4MB of RAM. (If fully populated with 256KB SIMMs, for a total of 2MB, there seem to be DMA problems with the upper 1MB.)
mek4_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Kern) (06/13/90)
In article <13084@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes: >In article <2654@orbit.cts.com> stgeorge@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Steve George) writes: >>Its full at 4 Megs and resides in the front slot of a Checkmate Memory Saver. > >Another widely used SIMM-based Apple IIGS memory expansion card is >MDIdeas' OctoRAM, which accommodates up to 8 each either 256KB or 1MB SIMMs, >in powers of two. Yep. Too bad the OctoRam is no longer being made or sold. I'm trying to get a hold of one of these cards (0K). I followed up several rumors, but none of the mail-order houses carry it and the designer of the card has the plans for the Octoram for sale now. He's trying to find someone to manufacture the OctoRam once again. I hope a company picks up the design, it would solve my problems. :) Mark Kern -- ========================================================================= Mark Edward Kern, mek4_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu A.Online: Markus Quagmire Studios U.S.A. "We not only hear you, we feel you !" =========================================================================
larrylro@gnh-applesauce.cts.com (Larry LRO) (06/14/90)
We have been selling the GS-Sauce Simm board for the past 4 months and are pleased with its performence. I have yet to hear whether it works on the Ram Keeper, but in all other instances the product performs flawlessly. Larry - LRO Computer Sales