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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Cartridge..ramdisk
Message-ID: <10029@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: 25 Sep 89 22:03:19 GMT
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In article <2539@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ins_bac@jhunix.UUCP (Ajay Choudhri) writes:
>Does anyone have any plans or information for constructing, a ram cartridge
>dor use as a ram drive.  I have heard of kits that allow for custom
>aplications for the cartridge port. I have only heard this thru rumors.
>Can anyone give e any pointers in the right direction or even sources
>for such boards.

I don't know about build-it-yourself kits, but Alpha Systems makes a line
of RAMboxes that plug into the cartridge port. Can be sized from 512K to
4Meg, with or without battery backup and clock. I have a 2Meg Ultradisk
with battery backup. This thing is pretty cool, expandable to 4Meg. You
can configure it for however many disk partitions you want, and can make
a partition bootable as well. I really like this feature, because I tend
to leave my hard drive off (too noisy) and I can stick auto-boot progs onto
that cartridge instead. You can also allocate up to 60K of the memory as
a printer buffer, which I've found to be pretty handy. No point in eating
up main memory for that... 

Anyway.... I really like mine. Too bad I probably can't use it with any
other cartridge gizmos...

Obligatory disclaimer - I'm not related to Alpha Systems in any way other
than as a satisfied customer...
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