6.2

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE COMPATIBILITY

Before buying a large floppy drive or hard disk drive, check to ace that all the operating systems you would like to use on your Apple (ProDOS, DOS 3.3, and Pascal) 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 run on the drive in question.

Non — interruptable 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 costing 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.

A non-interruptable power supply offering quick response time to a loss of power as well as having sufficient power to operate the computer long enough to allow information stored in MultiRam C’s memory to be saved to hard or floppy drives would be ideal if you are using MultiRam C in a business setting.

Checkmate Technology plane to offer to MultiRam, C owners a non—interruptable power supply that meets these specifications.

SOFTWARE

Checkmate Technology plane to offer for sale modifications to popular existing software (like the AppleWorks memory expansion program) that can best take advantage of MultiRam C’s large memory.

Revised spreadsheet and data base software packages that will use MultiRam C’s large memory are also expected to be released by third party software publishers later this year.

Some programs currently on the market will use more than 64K of MultiRam C’s memory, though not all of the memory on a card may be recognized. FlashCalc, MagiCalc, and Magic Office are examples of programs which will recognize 64K banks 0, 3 sod 5 of MultiRam C memory.

Unprotected programs that return to a program or data disk frequently can benefit now from MultiRam, C RAM disk emulation software. Most popular, unprotected programs can run out of a RAM drive and use the same RAM drive to store their data, thus greatly speeding up these programs. These programs would boot—up almost instantaneously. When running them, their disk access time would be almost unnoticeable. RAM fast disk speed would also allow you to very quickly and easily switch between programs as needed.