25 Apr
2002
25 Apr
'02
6:46 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Christopher Smith once stated:
That pretty much describes commodore disk drives, yep. The
point, though, is that they plug directly into an interface
that's already on the machine, so we would get into the sticky
discussion of how "directly" a drive must be handled. Require
too much of the logic to be in the computer, and suddenly an
external IDE disk wouldn't count.
As an aside, I've heard of interesting things being done with
the disk drive "computers," though I can't think of any off hand.
The CPU in the disk drives could be programmed and I've heard stories of
programming two such drives to handle copying files between them, leaving
the main computer free to do other things, including being off entirely.
-spc (Which is pretty neat actually ... )