Re: Hardware musings

[Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>]

sicklittlemonkey wrote:

> But is there enough memory in the Apple II to contain all of the
> multiple track reads before sending all the date to the (PC/Java/etc)
> "server" side for processing? I'm guessing possibly not, and that with
> no disk swapping involved (a la SST) it wouldn't matter how long the
> 6502 chugged away constructing each master track from the multiple
> reads and analysis.

In a 128K machine I'd assume there is enough memory for about 20
rotations. Subtract two or three for the code, which leaves you 17-18
rotations. Should be plenty. Even in a 64K machine you should get 7 or 8
rotation's worth.

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Linards Ticmanis