Re: Apple II's on the job

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pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:

>Obsbedia2 <obsbedia2@aol.com> wrote:
> 
>> << For typing or doing simple spreadsheet calculations it doesn't really
>> matter if it's 8 bit @ 1 MHz or 64 bit @ 2 GHz.
>> 
>>   Also, an Apple 2 with a Zip or floppies is silent (outside of I/O
>> servicing). Some people like silence. >>
>> 
>> True, and with 3rd party, half-height disk drives, even the 5.25" drives are
>> quieter.  Add a FOCUS HD or CompactFlash and you have one quiet machine--it
>> still doesn't even need a fan.
> 
>OTOH the harddisks (Corvus constellation etc) which were available to
>the Apple 2 vere, by today's standards, VERY noisy.....
>
>Yes, I do expect a harddisk on the computers I'm using today.

Ancient history even by Apple II standards.

The golden age of Apple II hard disks were the 1990s and
those hard drives WERE PC hard drives (either that or
Mac SCSI ones).  On my IIGS, I had an IBM SCSI 1GB
3.5" hard drive and a PC notebook internal Quantum 2.5"
hard drive.  Both were no more noisy that the hard drives
in my modern AMD PC systems.

So, no difference.  And yes, I did even own a hard drive
before I had a IIGS when I had my IIe.  That one had a
Quantum 40MB 3.5" SCSI hard drive.  Again, it was
quiet.  Quieter in fact than my Seagate Barracuda 40GB
IDE hard drive in my PC.  And that was in the late '80s.

So Apple or PC, I have ALWAYS expected a hard drive
for computers I use.