Looking for a *QUIET* computer

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

> (Warning:  Comments may be more sarcastic than they appear ;-).  Back
> in the day, it was entirely useful when I put 256K of memory on my
> Atari 800XL, which allowed me to define a 192K ramdisk which was some
> 70K larger than the size of a floppy disk...)

This puts me in mind of the Commodore 64 floppy disk drive. To save money,
Commodore had the same processor reading the drive mech as talking to the
IEEE bus. As someone said:

'Loads programs faster than you can type them in!!! (But only just..)'

-- 
Peter Hiscocks
Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto
http://www.syscompdesign.com
USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator
647-839-0325

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