Re: Unknown 1541 add-on card

From: Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 16:17:04 +0200
Message-ID: <51C5B1E0.7000405@laosinh.s.bawue.de>
On 06/22/2013 04:01 PM, Julian Perry wrote:
> What makes you sure it's ACTUALLY specifically for a 1541?

The one mentioned here? That I don't know, but I DO know that there is a 
floppy speeder named 'TurboTrans 3.0' for the 1541 which also contained 
256 oder 512KB RAM to keep one or two whole disks in RAM.

Here's a picture of the PCB:

  http://www.cbmhardware.de/misc/images/ttfull.jpg

The PCB looks a bit different from the one in the original Post, but if 
you look closer, the logic ICs look awfully familiar. So it might be a 
redesign or just a copy.

Had to dig out my old 64'er Floppy Special Edition for this. :)

  Gerrit


> Saturday, June 22, 2013, 11:44:40 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On 06/22/2013 03:40 PM, Michał Pleban wrote:
>>> Ruud@Baltissen.org wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have found a 1541 add-on card with 512 KB DRAM on board. The
>>>> problem: I have no idea who is the manufacturer. So I made some
>>>> pictures:
>>>
>>> 512kB for a 1541? o_O
>
>> 256KB make sense and were sold, this way you could cache a whole disk in
>> RAM and get (back then) extreme speed over a parallel cable. No more
>> waiting for head movements.
>
>>    Gerrit
>


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