Re: What's Next for the Apple II?

[Lockar <lockar@nospam.com>]

   Simon,

        That reminds me when I hooked up 6 Disk ][s up to my //gs for
laughes.  It was funny to see GSOS mount them.  LOL (Yes I used 3 Disk
][ interface cards).

      -Lockar



In article <1g7mlab.1gbe5llfrtnjuN%spam@luddite.ca>, Simon Williams
<spam@luddite.ca> wrote:

> Bill Garber <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > WOW!, that will be 1.914 MB. A CFFA card with a 128 MB
> > CF card installed would not be good, I would guess. ;-)
> 
> Well Bill, I was only planning to use 5 DuoDisks since I'll have an SSC
> and 80-column card installed, so it'll be closer to 1.4 Megs.
> While the CFFA might have better speed and storage capacity, I'm sure it
> would be nowhere near as noisy and would lack the impressive array of
> blinky red lights.
> In all seriousness, I was thinking it would be rather fun to have a
> bunch of people design sites that fit on a single 5" floppy. People
> often come up with the most remarkable things when faced with severe
> limitations (which in my opinion is the primary lure of the Apple II).
> Of course we're still a ways from the Apple II internet, so I'll just
> wait patiently and keep my stack of duodisks at the ready ;-)
> -simon