Looking for a *QUIET* computer

[James Knott]

phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> (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..)'
> 

Back in my DOS/XT days, it was common to create a RAM disk to run games
from.  Back in those days an entire game would fit on one floppy.

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