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Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

Subject: Re: The Apple ][ was cool!
From: russotto@user138.dsli.com (Matthew Russotto)
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:56:36 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.sinclair, comp.sys.tandy
Organization: DiS(L)organized
References: <3B511638.E704ED11@usa.net> <3B530194.2AAAC1D8@swbell.net> <3B5B8BAA.54DFE541@krypton.rain.com>
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In article <3B5B8BAA.54DFE541@krypton.rain.com>,
Leonard Erickson  <shadow@krypton.rain.com> wrote:
>
>And a downcheck on the hardware front for *not* using a standard disk
>controller chip, which made it's disks and drives incompatible with the
>rest of the world.

The 1979 (or was it '78?) Disk II was supposed to be compatible with
the much later IBM PC?  I suppose Apple could have used an MFM
controller like those used for 8" floppies, but it was far too
expensive at the time, and would have resulted in a much smaller (96K,
IIRC) disk capacity.
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