Date   : Tue, 13 Sep 2005 03:05:19 +0200
From   : "W.Scholten" <whs@...>
Subject: Re: 101 uses for a speech system (number 47)

ebay.commyatari.Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
>>Message-ID: <4324AE3E.8080406@...>
> 
>  
> "W.Scholten" <whs@...> wrote:
> 
>>my email archive and I only saw a message in which Jonathan said he
>>preferred a separate RAM card, which seems overkill to me as with fast
>>HD or CF card+CF adapter storage, a RAM disc doesn't appear to be really
>>interesting or useful.
> 
>  
> No, what I said was that if *you* wanted a ram card, then *you*
> can obtain and plug one in.

No, you said:

 > > Excellent point. It would be *definitely* worthwhile popping 8k of 
SRAM on
 > > the IDE interface?
 >
 > I was thinking of making the FS software see if there was any extended
 > RAM available, on a byte-wide card such as Sprow's or a page-wide card
 > in &FD00 and have the option of using that, rather than put a RAM card
 > on the IDE card. It's an IDE card, not a RAM card. If I want a RAM
 > card, I'll buy one from Sprow. (In fact, I just have;))

So you did say in fact that *you* preferred a separate RAM card to 
onboard RAM (in the IDE interface you were making/designing).

This if course implicitly amounts to saying anyone else *can* do this 
then if they want the RAM (unless they make a new IDE+RAM board), but 
what I said is correct.


> And yes, if you get your kicks out of messing about with
> fibreboard and ferric acid and millimetre drill bits, then *you*
> can to design a combo board with everything they want on it, then
> the working schematics are available for whatever you want to put
> on it.

No, that's not what I want, that's why I checked for the cost of having 
the PCB made... (if and when I finally get around to messing with 
hardware again)

> I get my kicks from *using* the hardware. The priority was to get
> the damn thing physically existing so I could plug the bloddy
> thing in and use it.

Precisely, that actually confirms what I said :)


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