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from: Steven Hirsch
date: 2009-02-15 21:12:50
subject: Re: More fun with Freed Z80

a2retro wrote:
>  To: Steven Hirsch
> Steven Hirsch wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I received my 512k SRAM chips yesterday and upgraded the board.   It 
>> now provides a 391k on-board ramdisk when the RAMDISK.DVR is genned 
>> into the system.
>>
>> I can also confirm that my ProPartition utility and driver works fine. 
>> I was able to create a quick 4MB partition on my CFFA and am using 
>> that as the A: disk currently (you cannot boot directly from the hard 
>> disk with this driver. That will have to wait until I can blow the 
>> dust off the modified PCPI operating system that boots from ProDOS).
>>
>> I have the USB interface and 20Mhz. crystal already.  The 20Mhz. Z80 
>> and PLDs should be here Monday.
>>
>> Steve
> 
> Hi Steve did you go with a NV 512K sram chip or regular sram?

Just a plain 512Kx8 70nsec. SRAM.  Not sure if an NV part would work in that 
circuit.
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