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From: rusure on 10 Nov 2007 19:51
On Nov 10, 12:26 pm, Joseph Fenn <jf...(a)lava.net> wrote:
>
> You both should be aware of this. The original CMD ramlinks did
> not have any Jumper cables. I had the original one and Maurice
> was surprised when he told me to connect the jumpercables
> which were necessary for "timeing" control on subsequent
> models of RamLinks". Later I got one of the subsequent
> versions of ramlink and sure enuff they had the timer 2 wire
> cables on them. Why this was necessary I know not cause
> my original one never had any problems on timeing the 128.

I am one of the deprived individuals with only 1 RAMLink. Fortunately
it doesn't use a jumpercable with my 128D. The only problems that I
had when I first got it was that I couldn't
access its RAM disk partitions when JIFFYDos was deactivated
and the difficulty when trying to swap device 8 with the RL.
There are now ware and tear problrms with it now. The RAMLink
port doesn't work anymore, I can live with the RL deffiencies.


From: Colin J Thomson on 10 Nov 2007 20:17
Joseph Fenn wrote:

> The original ramlinks produced by CMD has no jumper
> cables and none were needed. Only later on they appeared to
> affect the timeing speed. I have both the original and the later
> version from Maurice.
> Joe

Not true.. my RamLink came from CMD ~5 years before Maurice took over and it
had the timing cable supplied with it,
On a side note if you have a SCPU + RL combo there is a good chance its not
needed. I have two 128D's here one needs the cable one does not.

-Colin
From: Joseph Fenn on 11 Nov 2007 16:27

> I am one of the deprived individuals with only 1 RAMLink. Fortunately
> it doesn't use a jumpercable with my 128D. The only problems that I
> had when I first got it was that I couldn't
> access its RAM disk partitions when JIFFYDos was deactivated
> and the difficulty when trying to swap device 8 with the RL.
> There are now ware and tear problrms with it now. The RAMLink
> port doesn't work anymore, I can live with the RL deffiencies.
>
>
>
Well I too had both the original CMD version which was a "dream"
for years, then craped out on me so bought the Maurice version
(used of course) from someone. It arrived in a non working condition
and since I had no expertise to fix it, I just discarded the entire
R/L system and went back to my 4 QBB Black boxes on the extender
board. Thats a ten year step backwards but those QBB's last forever
and if you do loose contents due to a worn out lithium cell for
instance, they are duck soop to get a bax load back in place.
Each box holds 256K capacity and they are just as fast as
R/L in what they do.
Joe

From: Joseph Fenn on 11 Nov 2007 16:35


>
> Not true.. my RamLink came from CMD ~5 years before Maurice took over and it
> had the timing cable supplied with it,
> On a side note if you have a SCPU + RL combo there is a good chance its not
> needed. I have two 128D's here one needs the cable one does not.
>
> -Colin
>
I beg to differ with you Colin. I also had my intial R/L long before
Maurice took over at last longer than you say 5 years. It had no
such wires to plug in anywhere. Those 2 wires on the last versions
of R/L after Maurice took over were for timeing control.
Joe

From: Colin J Thomson on 11 Nov 2007 17:20
Joseph Fenn wrote:
>> Not true.. my RamLink came from CMD ~5 years before Maurice took over and
>> it had the timing cable supplied with it,
>> On a side note if you have a SCPU + RL combo there is a good chance its
>> not needed. I have two 128D's here one needs the cable one does not.

> I beg to differ with you Colin. I also had my intial R/L long before
> Maurice took over at last longer than you say 5 years. It had no
> such wires to plug in anywhere. Those 2 wires on the last versions
> of R/L after Maurice took over were for timeing control.

Well I guess I was lucky or maybe because I live a few thousand miles away
they sent me one :) Its a single wire with a tiny "clip on" probe at one
end and a header type plug on the other end that plugs into the RL, look up
the end of the RL and you will see two pins for the header plug to connect
to.

Anyway my RL is faulty, so it needs to get fixed :(

Cheers

Colin
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