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This firmware item resembles a game cartridge and it actually fits into the game cartridge slot. It can stay there permanently when you are not using the computer for playing games.\\ 
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It is necessary to have at least a 64K memory expander to use this unit. In fact the bigger your expander the more useful the SMARTDSK cartridge will be.\\ 
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After turning on your system, pulling the cartridge reset switch will boot the program and the first SMARTDSk screen will come up. It will indicate the size of ramdisk available, thus giving you an idea of the useable memory.  Through use of the SMARTkeys you are easily guided through the various operations provided. \\ 
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The second screen allows the options of either saving the contents of the ramdisk, loading the ramdisk from any other drive, or a third option, to continue. Three other options then appear, Boot SMARTDSK, Boot drive, or Boot program.  Secondary screens give you choices of the various drives.\\ 
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Through these various options it is possible to load a number of different programs into the ramdisk memory and load or boot them almost instantly on demand. I have found for example that by using another WALTER'S SOFTWARE program "PrBOOT" which on tape can hold SmartBASIC V1, SmartBASIC V2, ADAMCALC, SMARTFILER, ADAMLINK, and SMARTLOGO, all these can be loaded automatically from the PrBOOT media using the load ramdisk feature. Any of these programs then become available merely by booting the SMARTDSK cartrige again and selecting the appropriate program. I have experienced difficulty in booting SMARTFILER however.\\ 
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The fact that once loaded, all the ramdisk memory stays intact, even if you reset the system through the normal reset switch, is a great plus. Only if the power is turned off, or another program destroys the contents by using the memory expander will the programs in the ramdisk be lost.\\ 
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Another excellent feature of the SMARTDSK cartridge is the ability to save any of the programs you set up in the ramdisk with the save ramdisk feature.\\ 
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I have also found that it is very useful to be able to set up a tape or disk which has SmartBasic and files of all my favourite SmartBASIC utility programs. I arrange these to come up on screen through a HELLO menu program. After loading this by means of SMARTDSK to the Ram Disk these programs are the readily available whenever you are programming or using SmartBasic. \\ 
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Overall I would rate this a very useful addition to your ADAM system IF you have a memory expander.\\ 
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Programs all boot or load very fast from the ramdisk and once you have done the initial work of planning and setting up your ramdisk contents, there is a great saving of time, and wear and tear on the normal drives. \\ 
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The price when I purchased this item was $29.95 U.S. and I think well worth it. I have used most of the items created by WALTERS SOFTWARE, and I have always been well pleased with both their products and their service. I highly recommend this particular item and their other software.\\ 
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According to the latest Walters software newsletter more cartridges are planned. Notably these are.|- \\ 
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1) A cartridge containing all the Coleco test programs. This would have the advantage that you could still test an ADAM that refuses to load from a drive, or one that has memory problems. With the test program running from Cartridge it would be less prone to crash when testing an ADAM with severe problems. \\ 
2) They also plan a cartridge to contain many of the design features Coleco had planned for their programmers, which originate from a program named "Project Name by Line".\\ 
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This program is one of the latest, and I would venture to say, the best, (in my experience anyway), of the EOS utilities. This utility seems to do all those things you would expect a good utility program to do. To top things off, the documentation, provided as a documentary file on the master tape or disk, is very comprehensive and easily understood.\\ 
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The progam itself is self-loading and very fast, being writtem in machine language. Once loaded the program media can be removed from the drive. The whole program is menu driven, with the SMARTkeys and the dedicated function keys being used to select among the various options offered on the numerous screens. In general, pressing RETURN will advance you to the next stage of the program, while ESCAPE will return you to the main menu.\\ 
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FILEMANAGER will use expansion memory (if it is installed), as part of it's copy buffer. Of course, in the process of doing this, it would destroy the contents of expansion memory, if this has been set up as a ram-disk, in the same session on the computer, by any previously used program. \\ 
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The size of the copy buffer (depending on the size of expansion memory installed), is announced on the opening screen.\\ 
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