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Re: Vulcan based SSD Apple II/gs

Subject: Re: Vulcan based SSD Apple II/gs
From: dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 17:38:15 +0000 (UTC)
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Steven Hirsch wrote:
> 
> Another thought:  Since modern media is >>larger than typically needed for

> 8-bit computing environments, why not simply ignore the top 8 bits and
> accept 
> the loss of half the drive capacity?

Someone might curse this arrangement one day. Just like the 32 MB volume
limit in ProDOS. Seemed huge back in 1984, not so now.

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