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Comment by kazinator

The 1541 had a whole 6502 embedded system in it??? TIL.

Yet it was so astonishingly slow, it was a laughing stock among junior high school kids.

Total garbage compared to the Apple II drives designed by Woz, which were just dumb hardware, combined with a logic state sequencer" on the circuit card and registers for step motor control.

parent kazinator 8 years ago

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