fried chips, RAM disk

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From: R.BRANDI
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1987 02:47

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Help!  Our Mac went down the other day--weird stuff.  The disk
drive stopped reading, and then the screen blanked out a couple of
times.  This happened after I had started up a RAM disk.  I don't
know what version it was, but it was pretty old.  I think it might
have come with my dad's old version of Mac Pascal.  Anyways, when we
took it in to be serviced, the store said that one of the chips in
the disk drive was fried.  The drive was also suffering from overuse
(no hard disk yet in this household...which was why I wanted to use
the RAM disk).  I can believe that.  But my dad claims that the RAM
disk caused the fried chip.  I have trouble believing that.  Any
comments?  (Also, is their a **reliable** RAM disk available for the
Mac?  Preferably PD?)  Thanks.

Ralph


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Subject: fried chips, RAM disk
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Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 22:47:15 EDT
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