Re: Apple II viruses

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Jeff.Brielmaier@juge.com (Jeff Brielmaier) wrote:

>The design of the drive interface is not based on available floppy
>controller chips. (Woz did not think of looking to see if any
>existed back when he did the Disk][ Interface.)

Hi, that's not true.  Woz knew.  He worked as an engineer for HP
before he cofounded Apple.  Why his interface was different is
simple: cost.  His was a genius.  His interface had only a few chips
while everyone else, including HP, had closer to 50 chips on their
controllers.

Woz brought the disk drive to personal computers by finding a
way to make them cheap.