What if,... early PCs (was: stepping machanism

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Fri Apr 9 18:26:40 1999

On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Allison J Parent wrote:
> <Double density was NOT readily achievable in 1978. And the poor quality
> My dog, don't tell DEC that or intel.

Sorry, I should have said that it was not readily achievable for RADIO
SHACK, not that it wasn't possible. It took RS a few more years before
they were ready to have MFM in one of their consumer level machines.
RS's early FM had some data separation problems; I assume that that was
due to trying to keep the cost too low?
Received on Fri Apr 09 1999 - 18:26:40 BST