Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

[Liam Busey <buseyl@yahoo.com>]

Matthew Russotto wrote:
> 
> In article <3B5B8BAA.54DFE541@krypton.rain.com>,
> Leonard Erickson  <shadow@krypton.rain.com> wrote:
> >
> >And a downcheck on the hardware front for *not* using a standard disk
> >controller chip, which made it's disks and drives incompatible with the
> >rest of the world.
> 
> The 1979 (or was it '78?) Disk II was supposed to be compatible with
> the much later IBM PC?  I suppose Apple could have used an MFM
> controller like those used for 8" floppies, but it was far too
> expensive at the time, and would have resulted in a much smaller (96K,
> IIRC) disk capacity.

Has anyone seen a 'standard' disk controller of that era? Those things
were enormous! Woz's little GRC wonder was a work of art. A cheap disk
drive system was one of the Apple II's greatest strengths.

Liam Busey