Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!DOCKMASTER.ARPA!TMPLee From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: non-volatile RAM's Message-ID: <871214211830.978148@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> Date: 14 Dec 87 21:18:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 22 Several manufacturers advertise RAM's (for the GS, specifically) that have power continuously supplied to them (usually also with a rechargeable battery to tide one over power outrages) so they can be treated as something like a hard disk (but very fast). (I'm including here also the adaptors like the Checkmate MemorySaver.) Other than price, which varies slightly from one to the other, can anyone give a reason for buying one brand over another? I wonder, in particular, some say that one uses them like a ROM disk -- does that mean its awkward to update them? (and how does one address a ROM disk anyway? is there such a thing as /ROM5?) Do some look like "ROM" whereas others look merely like a /RAM5 that never forgets? Given what I use my system for I don't really want a hard disk (keeping documents on 3.5's is just fine) but it sure would be nice to be able to load the half dozen or so applications I use quickly; a couple of megs ought to do; however most of them do have initialization files that tend to get changed from time to time so what they boot from can't be read-only. TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA p.s., I did read a report from one of the other WordPerfect beta testers that he had a Checkmate Memory Saver and it worked very well -- which is sort of what prompted my question.