the new Apple iMac

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Fri May 8 06:53:17 1998

<But I remember one computer from the early 80's (don't remember the name)
<where the floppy was the computer -- a small SBC mounted on top of the
<floppy, and that's all there was.

AmproLB a complete z80, 64k, 2serial, printer port and SCSI on a board
the size of a 5.25" floppy. I have one.

I also have a SB180 that is faster with 4x the ram on a card half the
size.

Neither stepped around the problem by putting all of the base software on
rom. The EPSON PX-8 did. I also did it for a s100 system years before
that. With EPROMS, EEProms and Flash ram as dense as they are a 1.44mb
floppy seems a lot of work.

Allison
Received on Fri May 08 1998 - 06:53:17 BST