Looking for Turbocharger or PowerDisk, disk cache for 512K

[Dog Cow]

I'm looking for some software from 1985-1986 that used additional RAM in the Mac 512K as a disk cache: Turbocharger by Nevins Microsystems, and PowerDisk.

I have the manual for Turbocharger, but no software. :-(

 

[Iesca]

Hi @Dog Cow

Just got in an unopened copy of Turbo Charger. Will be archiving it soon!

 

[olePigeon]

I just picked up the hardware equivalent to this.

 

[Iesca]

And here it is! Enjoy!

TurboCharger - Macintosh Garden

TurboCharger is a disk caching program that can be configured to store frequently accessed areas of a floppy disk within RAM, thereby speeding up disk access when working with floppies. Make Your Macintosh Faster. Guaranteed.

macintoshgarden.org

 

[Kafelatte]

Thanks for the photo — I designed the package. Glad you found the software!

 

[Iesca]

That's amazing! I'm rather fond of the package design. Do you remember anything notable about the project way-back-when?

 

[Kafelatte]

I remember too much!
I just posted the advertisement for my banner (I just took a photo of the laminated double page spread that Mac User gave me). We put single and double page spread ads in all the magazines. We also had postcards and flyers, point-of-purchase to purchase displays… they really flushed out my portfolio for me. I had a lot of fun working on all of that, including the logo. The symbol is an homage to a Russian painter Kazimir Malevich, at the behest of the president.
The most fun I had there was when we all were playing Maze Wars on the networked Macs.