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Re: Apple II-Or Come on people, It's a 20 year old computer
- Subject: Re: Apple II-Or Come on people, It's a 20 year old computer
- From: Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com>
- Date: 2000/08/07
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Computer Sciences Corporation
- References: <394F0452.D41@tirix.org> <sS_e5.9313$I76.570308@monger.newsread.com> <8ljps7$g1f$1@merope.saaf.se> <3987d621.61725482@news> <8m8snr$o5m$1@merope.saaf.se>
Apple II 5.25" floppies were 143K actually. Not too bad for the time.
bp
Paul Schlyter wrote:
> But I suppose the history matters too. And at the time of the Apple
> II, it made great sense to use GCR, since it provided 100k instead of
> 60k or 80k of the MFM 5.25" disk formats of those days.