Corcomp 256k/512k

[am1933]

A few days ago I bought a Corcomp 256/512K card, I am aware of the practical uses of the card but what I would like to kow is-was there any commercial software released that took advantage of this board?

[+arcadeshopper]

None that I remember I sold mine after a while after I got my hard drive setup. It's not battery backed up.. You can use it as a "temporary" ram disk that's about it.

 

Greg

[marc.hull]

A few days ago I bought a Corcomp 256/512K card, I am aware of the practical uses of the card but what I would like to kow is-was there any commercial software released that took advantage of this board?

 

 

The DSR is on the card. It's a ram disk. Docs are on WHT. It has a place for a wall wart to plug into for data retention when the power is off. IIRC it also doubles as 32k expansion ram.

[am1933]

Thanks for the Information gentlemen!!!

[Gazoo]

The DSR is on the card. It's a ram disk. Docs are on WHT. It has a place for a wall wart to plug into for data retention when the power is off. IIRC it also doubles as 32k expansion ram.

 

I've owned this device in both the sidecar and Pbox card configurations. Neither was at all reliable in retaining the contents of the Ramdisk for any length of time. About a week was the best time I encountered. If you want to use it to quickly access files I recommend reloading the thing from floppy every time you use your TI.

 

Gazoo

[marc.hull]

 

I've owned this device in both the sidecar and Pbox card configurations. Neither was at all reliable in retaining the contents of the Ramdisk for any length of time. About a week was the best time I encountered. If you want to use it to quickly access files I recommend reloading the thing from floppy every time you use your TI.

 

Gazoo

 

I had one for a while and had about the same experiences. Not sure DRAM is meant to be powered on for months at a time?

[+Ksarul]

The memory loss issue with this card has been a constant complaint ever since it was released. The folks I knew in Germany that had it generally recommended that folks buy the Myarc card instead--and these were people that generally avoided Myarc products like the plague! This was before the release of the Myarc HFDC or the Geneve--quite a few folks over there bought those. I never saw anyone over there with a Myarc MPES-50 or a Myarc RS-232, and only a couple with the Myarc FDC. There were also a few Personality Cards, but all three of those that I saw came over with Mack McCormick and Dee Turner when they were stationed there. I still have one of Mack's Personality Cards.

 

There were a LOT of CorComp FDCs over there though, along with the German Atronic FDC (most software recognized it as a CorComp card). The most likey sidecar system was an Atronic CPS-99 (DSDD FDC, 32K, RS-232, and 2 Floppies in a nice side case). BTW, the "C" in the name of Copy-C was for CorComp. An earlier version was called Copy-A (for Atronic). Copy-C did work on both cards though, IIRC. Later a lot of folks got the BwG controller cards, so DSDD cards were very available over there, at least for a while.