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Re: Mac HD #M0135
- Subject: Re: Mac HD #M0135
- From: david@uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)
- Date: 1997/04/15
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
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shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford) writes:
>Seriously, try this on for size: if I say that unidisk 3.5s have their own
>processor and memory because 1 mHz Apple IIs are too slow to keep up with
>the data, am I "insulting the Apple II" or stating a fact?
Neither :-) That was why Apple designed them that way (for the //c) but the
UDC running an Apple 3.5" drive proves that an intelligent drive is not needed
to allow a 1MHz //e to keep up with the data - just a smarter controller.
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David Wilson Dept CompSci Uni Wollongong Australia david@cs.uow.edu.au