7 May
2009
7 May
'09
2:35 p.m.
On 7 May 2009 at 13:47, Jules Richardson wrote:
No, I suppose not. I wonder if they ever toyed with
the idea of
rolling their own - perhaps a board containing a little 8-bitter which
was responsible for a few other useful functions (RS232, parallel
maybe) too. I suppose RAM/ROM costs around then made it unworkable
even if they had the skills readily on-tap (not to mention that it
probably wouldn't fit in with the idea of what the PC was supposed to
be!)
Commodore 1541? Actually, they'd done that one already. Think
about the IBM 5100/5110 with the 5114 diskette drive unit. I don't
think they even wanted to think about putting something like that on
a "personal computer"...
--Chuck