hard-sector 5 1/4 disk

From: Eric J. Korpela <korpela_at_ssl.berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue Nov 13 11:23:29 2001

> If Sellam insists, then we can agree to disagree, since I don't think much of
> the Apple][, not back in the early days of microcomputers, and certainly not
> now, when we can all thank our lucky starts that we have better tools to use.

On the other hand, I love Apple ][s. I spent much of my younger days with
them. I have a fairly reasonable collection of ][ series and clones. I spend
more time with my ][s than with any other of my systems. I love 'em. Yet,
I'm not joining Sellam in insisting that the Disk ][ system was the best thing
on the market.

Then again, I don't join my fellow Apple ][ collectors in claiming that the
6502 was the best processor on the market either. Like all religions, the
true believers will always shout down the heretics.

What the Apple ][ was (including the Disk ][ system) is an example of what
a great hacker can do with limited resources. It wasn't the fastest machine.
It didn't have the best graphics. It didn't have the best disk subsystem.
It had a positively crappy DOS. But it was an incredible hack. Maybe the
best I've ever seen.

Eric
Received on Tue Nov 13 2001 - 11:23:29 GMT