28 Apr
2012
28 Apr
'12
5:34 p.m.
I came across some interesting reading the other day in a library book
that I'm sorry I can't remember its name. It essentially said: Can one
subscribe to the theory that vintage computers, such as the Coleco
ADAM, went extinct because they used cassette drives where one spent
more time finding information and recording such which greatly slowed
down processing thereby defeating the purpose of electronic computing?
I?m not sure if this applied to floppy drive systems but computing
never really took off until hard drives came along in the 16-bit
world, i.e., the mid-80s! Classic computing aficionados, particularly
on this site, may have a different take on things.
Murray--