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6.2 HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE COMPATIBILITY
Before buying a large floppy drive or hard disk drive, check to ace that all the
operating systems you would like to use on your Apple (ProDOS, DOS 3.3, and
Pascal) work on the drive. Further, if you use copy protected commercial
software. be certain that the drive will run the software you now use or check
with the software publishers to see if they have a version that will run on the
drive in question.
Non — interruptable Power Supplies
In a business environment, a power failure that occurs while you are working
with a large data file stored all in memory could be disastrous. At best, data
must be re—entered costing lost time and aggravation. At worst, if a power
failure occurs while information is being written to disk, a power surge or
other disruption accompanying the power failure could cause damage to the file
being saved so that the file is unusable.
A non-interruptable power supply offering quick response time to a loss of power
as well as having sufficient power to operate the computer long enough to allow
information stored in MultiRam C’s memory to be saved to hard or floppy drives
would be ideal if you are using MultiRam C in a business setting.
Checkmate Technology plane to offer to MultiRam, C owners a non—interruptable
power supply that meets these specifications.
SOFTWARE
Checkmate Technology plane to offer for sale modifications to popular existing
software (like the AppleWorks memory expansion program) that can best take
advantage of MultiRam C’s large memory.
Revised spreadsheet and data base software packages that will use MultiRam C’s
large memory are also expected to be released by third party software publishers
later this year.
Some programs currently on the market will use more than 64K of MultiRam C’s
memory, though not all of the memory on a card may be recognized. FlashCalc,
MagiCalc, and Magic Office are examples of programs which will recognize 64K
banks 0, 3 sod 5 of MultiRam C memory.
Unprotected programs that return to a program or data disk frequently can
benefit now from MultiRam, C RAM disk emulation software. Most popular,
unprotected programs can run out of a RAM drive and use the same RAM drive to
store their data, thus greatly speeding up these programs. These programs would
boot—up almost instantaneously. When running them, their disk access time would
be almost unnoticeable. RAM fast disk speed would also allow you to very
quickly and easily switch between programs as needed.