15 Nov
2007
15 Nov
'07
4:23 a.m.
On Tuesday 13 November 2007 18:07, Fred Cisin wrote:
What was oddball about DRAM (Is that what you meant?) for those machines?
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
One little
nasty. The 1771 has a basic ability to do data seperation.
Well, it purports to.
The quality of the internal data separation sometimes leaves a bit to be
desired. Percom sold an astonishing number of add-on data separator
sandwich boards to TRS80 owners.
Then they switched to selling a sandwich board that added a 179x for
double density, while still retaining the 1771, for the oddball DAMs that
it could provide (needed for TRS80)