6 Nov
2001
6 Nov
'01
6:57 a.m.
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
However, there's an easily observable basis for
the beliefs regarding
the Apple][ disk subsystem that I've put forth in this case, unlike
the erroneous conclusions that early 20th-century Americans had drawn
about diet.
In the Dick Erlacher World of Factually Erroneous and Frivelous Opinions,
perhaps. In the real world? Nein.
The Apple][ disk subsystem was made in order to offer
drives with a
capacity advantage over its competitor, the TRS-80 single-density
5-14" drives. I don't remember the details of the cost difference,
I think your timeline is in error here. I believe the Apple Disk ][ was
on the market before the TRS-80 disk drives. And at any rate, your
analysis is, again, wrong. Apple offered disk drives because it was a
good marketing move, and it just happened to store more data than Radio
Shack's because Woz's design was elegant, clever, and superior.
but the main advantage to Apple was in that they built
their own drive
electronics and cound benefit at the system level, cost-wise, from
every little thing they left out. First of all, they didn't have to
<the rest of Dick's spewage flushed>
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