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Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

Subject: Re: The Apple ][ was cool!
From: "william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 17:54:56 GMT
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"sands-of-iowa" <sands@cableone.com> wrote in message
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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.
>
Nope. The controllers existed when Woz designed his controller
but the cost would have been prohibitive.  He thought he knew
of a better way to get the cost down and get more data on the
drive than was standard at the time.

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