[Coco] Bubble Memory

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Tue Aug 15 10:29:18 EDT 2017


On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 08:58:30AM -0500, RETRO Innovations wrote:
> On 8/15/2017 7:31 AM, Bruce W. Calkins wrote:
> > One of the limits to the CoCo 1 & 2 memory expansion was the inability
> > to shift small-to-medium sized blocks in and out of the memory map.
> > Basically it was limited to 32k mapping blocks.  This applied to the PBJ
> > 128k & 256k expansions too.  That said; RAM Disks really did speed up
> > many processes.
> > 
> > Bruce W.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> I admit I'm woefully late to the Color Computer party, but is there any
> technical information on these upgrades to peruse.  I searched for
> information last night, to satisfy my curiosity, but came up empty.

"128K The Easy Way" by Dennis Lewandowski;
Rainbow magazine: December 1984, pp 162-168.

Hth!

John
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