64K ram
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Have read comments by others re RAM Module and Chipmunk and have comments M100
goes with me many places, always with PCSG's Write ROM (Excellent), usually
with Olympus Pearlcorder 5803 for mass storage, and sometimes with Brother EP44
as printer. This load of hardware is tolerable and there have been no problems
with data retrieval from microcassette; but none in the many months of use.
Coonsidered Chipmunk, but held off because (1) too stupid to master another dos
and (2) too much hardware to lug. My 64K is from PGD. Agree with others that
it is splendid hardware. Data transfer utility is a different story. Peculiar
handling by PGD. Standard page in RAM instrudtion manual says Utility will be
supplied in two to three weeks free of charge. If the utility existed, and
their ads said it did, why was it standard practice to delay sending it? In
fact, it was not sent until I complained. Eventually it arrived – a cassette
and a semi-literate instruction pamphlet containing dire warnings which
suggested that, after certain, not altogether unlikely operating sequences of
operations, the owner might have to throw his computer away. Taking courage in
both hands, I killed all my BASIC programs per the manual instructions and
tried to CLOAD the utility with another standard size cassette recorder that I
have used sucfully in the past. Screen reported "FOUND MENU1" and followed
that good news immediately with the bad news: "? IO ERROR". Same thing
repeatedly with both tracks on the tape. A rude communication from me got a
very courteous reply from PGD's president, Peter G. Van Heusen, who said he was
enclosing a second cassette. His letter came in a letter-size envelope, which
did not enclose the cassette, and no second cassette ever arrived. Having
learned that this utility, if it had loaded, would have preempted 1432 bytes in
each of the three 32K banks, I have done notheing further about the matter.
Have others had better luck with the Data Transfer Utility?