Installation manual

Hardware & Software Compatibility
Before buying a large floppy drive or hard disk drive, check to see that all the
operating systems you would like to use on your Apple (ProDOS, DOS 3.3,
Pascal, and CP/M) 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 vim on the drive in question.
Co-Processor Cards
The speed of the Apple’s motherboard 6502 or 65C02 processor is acceptable
for use with 64K or 128K of memory. You may discover, however, if you
work with large AppleWorks/MultiRam files that same operations, noticeably
those dealing with large spreadsheet files, take a relatively long time.
Co-processor boards using faster 65C02 processor can be added to the Apple
//e to speed up its operations. In testing, boards such as the Accelerator by
Titan Industries and The SpeeDEMON by Micro Computer Technologies,
speed up the operation of many AppleWorks functions threefold. Zip
Technology has successfully created a 40 pin IC that replaces the present
65C02 and that is completely compatible with all MultiRam cards. A co-
processor card used in conjunction with a hard disk drive and the MultiRam
RGB Card makes AppleWorks a superlative integrated program. Power
consumption of these speed-up cards is high. See Chapter 3 for additional
information about problems with power consumption.
Most CP/M cards may be used in conjunction with MultiRam RGB with
MulliRam’s optional CP/M disk emulation software. Any disk intensive
CP/M program, like Wordstar, shows increased speed from having a RAM
quick, large disk drive to load and save files to. MultiRam RGB and its
optional CP/M disk emulator software should work with any CP/M card that
works in slots 1 through 7 of the Apple.
Non-interruptible 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 resulting in 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.
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