Documentation for the Clearpoint Q-RAM 11 board seems to be rather scarce;
all I could find was a user manual, with no technical info (manual or prints
or other documentation) online. (I'd be glad to be proved wrong! :-)

So as part of a project I needed to figure out which memory chips were which;
now that I've worked it out, I'm putting that info online here in the
archives, where eventually Google will find it, and make it available to
anyone who needs it.


So, looking at the card from the component side, with the handle at the top,
and the contact fingers at the bottom, there's an array of memory chips 12
columns wide, and 6 rows high; I see no ID system on the card, so I number
the columns A-L (from the left), and the rows 0-5 (from the top). The card
can have 4 banks of 128KB each, for a max total of 512KB.

The chip-bit relationship is pretty random:

Bank 0 - Columns A, E, I:

01      I2
02      E5
04      I3
010     A5
020     A4
040     A2
0100    A0
0200    A1
0400    E3
01000   A3
02000   E0
04000   E4
010000  E1
020000  E2
040000  I1
0100000 I0

Bank 1 - Columns B, F, J:
Bank 2 - Columns C, G, K:
Bank 3 - Columns D, H, L:

The banks 2/3 column assignments are a guess, not verified as yet. The bit
allocation seems to be the same in all banks; I tried a few in bank 1, and
they matched the ones in bank 0 (suitably offset in column, of course).

        Noel

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