{"id":2096,"date":"2023-08-27T09:35:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T08:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.worldofc64.com\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2023-08-27T09:38:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T08:38:40","slug":"silicon-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.worldofc64.com\/?p=2096","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Disk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few months back Bram Brooddoos and I found a Dutch marketplace offering of an unknown and quit rare Dutch made ram disk: the Silicon Disk made by Recomput from Rotterdam.\u00a0 The seller was offering two of these units, and used them back in the day as storage for his BBS.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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After some searching online and in Dutch Commodore magazines I found two articles\u00a0 about this ram disk.<\/p>\n

Commodore Dossier Aktief – Juli 1987 – Silicon Disk<\/a> Silicon Disk – Commodore Info – jaargang 4 nummer 3 – mei juni 1987<\/a><\/p>\n

The disk is from 1987 and contains up to 4 x 512kb ram boards. At the max it can hold up 2MB of data, including a back-up battery which could retain the data for over 5 years. The unit was expensive: basic version was 999 guilders, and each 512kb board was 750 guilders. One of the articles mentions that a manual was missing (it was send by mail to all owners afterwards: this manual is indeed missing, so if anybody has one we would love to have at least a copy!). It also didn’t work with the C128, which was fixed later one with a rom update (we still need to test it). After fixing the fuse and replacing batteries both units were up & running.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bram dumped the roms and made some photo’s and we made a scan of the two articles. You can download the zip file here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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