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General => Auctions et al => Topic started by: Blacklord on November 26, 2009, 05:52 AM

Title: BBG RAM - what's this ?
Post by: Blacklord on November 26, 2009, 05:52 AM
http://cgi.ebay.com/BBGRam-2meg-BBG-Ram-Commodore-64-128-Works-Good_W0QQitemZ110461455048QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b8040ac8 (http://cgi.ebay.com/BBGRam-2meg-BBG-Ram-Commodore-64-128-Works-Good_W0QQitemZ110461455048QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b8040ac8)
Title: Re: BBG RAM - what's this ?
Post by: airship on November 26, 2009, 07:11 AM
It's similar to a RAMLink. More info here:

http://cbmfiles.com/genie/geniefiles/Information/PPI.TXT (http://cbmfiles.com/genie/geniefiles/Information/PPI.TXT)
Title: Re: BBG RAM - what's this ?
Post by: Hydrophilic on November 28, 2009, 11:42 PM
Pretty cool.  $200 for 2 Megs... a bit pricy... but what us Commie lovers won't spend our money on!

I had never heard of this device.  Thanks for the link airship!  I seem to recall a similar battery-backed RAM-type unit for the 64/128.  I'm thinking it was the "Quick Brown Box" or something similar... that's what I thought of when I looked at the eBay auction, but of course QBB != BBG and airship's link confirms it...
Title: Re: BBG RAM - what's this ?
Post by: RobertB on November 29, 2009, 12:06 PM
Quote from: Hydrophilic on November 28, 2009, 11:42 PM
I'm thinking it was the "Quick Brown Box" or something similar... that's what I thought of when I looked at the eBay auction, but of course QBB != BBG and airship's link confirms it...
BBG Ram is a different item from Quick Brown Box.  BBG Ram was developed by Performance Peripherals and imported from Europe.  It maxed out at 2 meg of RAM.  Quick Brown Box was developed in the U.S. and maxed out at 256K of RAM.

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