Re: Vulcan based SSD Apple II/gs

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

Steven Hirsch wrote:
> On 06/06/2011 01:38 PM, D Finnigan wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I take your point. But honestly, does the difference between e.g. 4 and 8
> GB 
> of capacity matter for an Apple 2?
> 

640k ...

I get your point too. Right now, GBs of storage is enough. But who knows
what absurd things that people will be doing with their Apples in some
number of years?

(I can think of one: if our TCP/IP and Ethernet connections get good enough,
imagine an FTP server with the entire Asimov contents, running on a IIe with
gigs of storage)

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