CompuServe Thread

FYI. I've had a great day! I installed my new Intel Above Board Plus 8 (populated with 2 megs) with I/O card on my XT Bridgeboard and it works perfectly. I configured it to replace a 640K memory expansion card by adding 128K to ram, thus eliminating one card. I also created a 768K ram disk (It acts just like the Amiga side ram disk; good for diskcopying those 720K disks). Buying the ram expansion with an I/O board attached also allowed me to remove my older I/O board. As a result, the extra ram, expanded memory and I/O card are "all in one." I used pctools and another diagnostic program (Helix's Discovery) to see if all was well. Both programs showed the additional memory and the I/O ports. Unfortunately, the Plus 8 does not come with a game port. By the way, Helix's Doubledisk also works with the XT Bridgecard. It is terribly slow on the XT, but it does allow a 50% increase in hard disk space. In my case, using 10meg of my 32meg hardcard I was able to store 16megs of programs. It didn't really double the 10 megs of allotted space but it did increase it by over 50 percent. Odell Lee Paris, France