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Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

Subject: Re: The Apple ][ was cool!
From: "sands-of-iowa" <sands@cableone.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 08:04:19 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.sinclair, comp.sys.tandy
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Didn't apple "roll their own floppy controller because no one had a floppy
drive for the home market at that time all the other computer makers were
useing tape?instead for cost.

>Tandy left out one RAM chip in the Model I's video and replaced it with
>a gate. Commodore used that stupid serialized IEEE-4788 bus. Apple
>decided to roll their own floppy controller.
>
>--
>Leonard Erickson (aka shadow{G})
> shadow@krypton.rain.com <--preferred
>leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com <--last resort

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