On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, jim bell wrote:
The comments about the floppies (" VERY SMALL capacity floppies (which were very slow as well") is even more off-base.
The original Apple II floppy held ONLY 90 kilobytes on a 5" floppy. How did they do such a bad job?
Wrong. The _original_ apple 2 floppy held about 130K -- competitive with other single-density single-sided floppies of the day... 1 1/2 years later, they fit 160K on a single-sided single-density floppy, almost as much as an IBM double-density single-sided floppy (180K) (This is related to the fact that the apple used 5+3 encoding, while IBM still uses the more-obvious but less-efficient 4+4 -- read _Beneath_Apple_DOS_ for more details) ---------- Jon Lasser (410)532-7138 - Obscenity is a crutch for jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu inarticulate motherfuckers. http://www.goucher.edu/~jlasser/ Finger for PGP key (1024/EC001E4D) - Fuck the CDA.