Re: Graffiti and General Zoomer Questions..

GadgetMaster (GadgetMstr@gnn.com)
Thu, 23 Nov 1995 18:16:12

>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 22:09:48 -0500
>From: ZygZ@aol.com
>Sender: owner-zoomer-list@blob.best.net
>To: zoomer-list@blob.best.net
>Subject: Re: Graffiti and General Zoomer Questions..
>

>As for deleting the 190K for AOL, consider buying a SRAM card for
memory
>instead. I just bought one from Surplus Technologies (a 2 Meg card
) for 79
>bucks. It seems to work real well. The only thing I was not
thrilled about
> is
>that when I received my card the invoice said that it was "USED",
while the
>product sheet never mentioned that, nor did the salespeople. Cards
have a
>limited number of Writes so I consider what they did pretty
unethical.

I believe only Flashdisk cards have the write limitation. It was my
understanding that SRAM cards are simply RAM disks and like normal
RAM, are not limited to a certain number of reads/writes.

Just to make it clear, however, the AOL program doesn't take up any
space on the Zoomer's B: drive. It's actually in a similar
directory on the SYS volume, and GEOS maps similar directory
structures to appear as a single drive in File Manager. In other
words, AOL is in ROM. There is a preferences file in
B:\GEOWORKS\PRIVDATA\AOL folder, but it only takes up 1-2 K. If you
never run AOL, this file will never be created.

GadgetMaster
gadgetmstr@gnn.com