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Re: Rocket Chip VS Zip Chip
- Subject: Re: Rocket Chip VS Zip Chip
- From: bolesd@goya.its.rpi.edu (David B. Boles)
- Date: 2 Feb 1995 03:32:23 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
- References: <1995Jan30.131241.38241@miavx1>
- Sender: Dave Boles (bolesd@rpi.edu)
In article <1995Jan30.131241.38241@miavx1>,
Brian J. Bernstein <bjbernstein@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm just curious if anyone here had experience with Zip and Rocket
>processors.. I personally liked the RocketChip MUCH better than the Zip
>Chip (I was able to use both).. Anyone else have any stories or
>information? This was the last significant ][ breakthrough in my mind..
I didn't have the Rocket chip, but I had both the 4 MHz and 8 MHz versions
of the Zip chip. The 4 worked great, but the 8 chewed up the disk
directories with fair regularity, and I yanked it. It wasn't long after
that I started looking at Macs.