Re: 65020 CPU? Look this...

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Charlie wrote:
> "Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:DPjVd.42969$wi2.10748@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com...
>
> > Bah! All you whipper-snappers with your ][+, //e, //c and GS boxes! Why
>
> back
>
> > in the day, you weren't a real Apple II user unless you were using,
>
> well...
>
> > a real Apple II with 16K which is all the RAM a real programmer needs.
> > Integer BASIC and assembly are all you need, phooey on Applesoft (who
>
> needs
>
> > FP!). And while macho power users are plenty happy with turbo cassette
> > drives, I admit my 13 sector floppy is a wonder. Them new fangled 16
>
> sector
>
> > controllers just encourage programmers to write sloppier code!
>
>
> My ][+ had 16K of RAM when I bought it and I later bought an Integer Card
> which made it pretty close to a "real" Apple II.  And yes I used a cassette
> tape recorder for a while but I will admit that when I finally broke down
> and bought a floppy drive, Apple was already using 16 sectors.

Yep, my situatiion almost exactly--except that instead of an Integer
Card, I built a 16K card from a bare board.  The day I bought the ][+
I bought a GE Cassette deck and a Panasonic 10" TV.

BTW, I found cassettes a very friendly storage medium for programming,
since it was easy to keep a good audit trail of all the previous
versions on the tape, just adding new ones on the end.  Of course,
when I added a disk drive (a modified SA400), I never went back.  ;-)

-michael

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