On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
Given the low cost of the Apple unit, it's a marvel they could do it at all. The "IWM" was the key. Just plain good design. And "only 90 KB" is also misleading in implying Apple was behind the times. The IBM PC launched 3 years later had a built-in cassette port and only offered 180K diskette drives (later upgraded to 360K).
Also had more than enough computing power to break knapsack. It's not what you've got, it's how you use it. Interesting gedankenexperiment... how much difference would it have made to ULTRA and it's predecessors if bletchley park had rediscovered and been able to manfacture semi-reliably primitive transistors? Simon --- Cause maybe (maybe) | In my mind I'm going to Carolina you're gonna be the one that saves me | - back in Chapel Hill May 16th. And after all | Email address remains unchanged You're my firewall - | ........First in Usenet.........