Yes things were moving fast even then.
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>This was late in the game.
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>The Altair when first available had 4 cards for IO, the SIO-A (single
>serial), 2SIO (2 6850 serial ports), PIO(parallel) and the infamous ACR.
The Digital Group developed boards that were the equivalent.
>At the time of the demo the ACR was available with usable software. Why
>they chose TTY loading to this date is speculation.
Keep in mind this was a group of sales types and maybe they
didn't have everything with them.
>
>What Sudding did do was to make the 300baud (30CPS) ACR and the 300baud
>(also 30cps) Kansas City standard look slow by pushing to 1500baud
>so that loading at 150cps was doable. However the Sudding standard
>never caught on as it was not tolerent of some problems (tape speed).
>The Tarbell standard would give a higher data rate and was self clocking.
>
>So went the audio casette hardware wars. When it was reaching it's peak
>most of us were looking at either real tape (saturation with block
>replaceability), disks or disk like systems.
Yes there was no question that disks were the way to go.
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>
>Allison
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