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> The last time I looked in PC Week the prices of 256K Ram Chips were down to
> about $175 a megabyte (36 256K chips at <$4.99 a piece).  With all the new
> LSI ram controller chips, I bet you could put about 5Mb on a Ram Drive for
> under $1000 by the years end.  For the price of a hyperdrive, you could
> probably get a 20Mb ram disk.

The interesting thing in all of these discussions has been how
they emphasize the technical side.  This would/wouldn't work
because {it won't, no one would want it, hard disk would be better,
real ram disk doesn't go slow, etc}.

Here at last we have a posting that gets to the real question.
Would someone buy one.  The prices given look good.

As a more or less average Mac user (technically proficient,
but not a True Hacker) I should be representative of a
reasonable sized chunk of the market.  I would buy one.
Why?  I want a Fat Mac with fast disks.  I have a Fat Mac that
spends all his time looking like a skinny mac because he uses
a RAM disk all day.

An External RamDisk would be fast and would not impact my Fat Mac.
For mass storage, I would continue to use my floppys.
If the ERamDisk could do the compression on the fly (NOT impacting
the Mac processor) so much the better.  Why do I want one?
To reduce the number of times I have to wait while the disk turns.
It would do that. Where do I pay?

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