WTD: CBM Pet 8032 64K memory expansion installation/users guide

[Ethan Dicks]

On 8/6/05, B. Degnan <billdeg at degnanco.com> wrote:
> I am looking for a CBM Pet 8032 64K memory expansion installation/users
> guide.  Anyone have a copy or a URL to a copy?  I wish to test an expansion
> card to verify that indeed the 64K is available, and how to address the
> memory/test the card.

There should be a test program embedded on one of the many Test/Demo
disks floating around on the 'net.  Funet will be a good place to
start for manuals, schematics and documentation.

>  Should there be a different "bytes available"
> message upon boot with the card properly installed vs. no card?

I wouldn't expect so - the memory is paged into one of the expansion
blocks, and BASIC doesn't know anything about it.  AFAIK, you had to
write special programs that could take advantage of the memory.  Since
it was somewhat difficult to use (compared to writing simple BASIC
programs), and since it was so expensive, they weren't very common.

-ethan