5 Jun
2014
5 Jun
'14
11:09 a.m.
On 06/05/2014 08:56 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 6/5/14 7:35 AM, Simon Claessen wrote:
One thing has always puzzled me. I can see the need for a Woz sequencer
for the Apple II--disks were still pretty early in the game and LSI disk
controllers were not all that inexpensive or well-developed.
But by the time Lisa came around, said controllers were commodity items
and there were already systems marketed that had no problem fitting 400
or 800K on a conventional 80-cylinder drive.
So why the special exotic disk hardware for the Lisa and Mac? It
doesn't seem as if it bought anything, other than a nonstandard format
that could not be easily handled on other vendors' existing hardware.
--Chuck
the mac and lisa 400k drives did the same thing.
Lisa 400K had dedicated hardware with no connection to sound