Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!midway!arthur!francis
From: francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: The future of the past mac
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.190224.11486@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 90 19:02:24 GMT
References: <1990Nov11.174115.29185@eng.umd.edu> <2587@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Nov13.045214.12440@eng.umd.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago
Lines: 21

In article <1990Nov13.045214.12440@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
>In article <2587@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:
>>In article <1990Nov11.174115.29185@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
>>> 
>>> Yep-- isn't an industry where price drops are the norm really something?
>>> Today, the Apple II+, w/64K RAM and two 128K disk drives that my father
>>					  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Please!  143K/drive...
>
>4K/track * (35 tracks/disk - 4 tracks overhead + track 35) = 128K-- the usable
>capacity of most of my disks.  (Why Woz didn't include track 35 in unmodified
>DOS I don't know).
Er, if you're gonna deduct the FAT & system tracks of the II's disks, you
should compare it with a Mac floppy with a system installed.  If you want
a decent system, you essentially don't have ANY overhead (unless you've
gone high-density).  When System 7 comes out, the question will be moot,
since nobody will be able to put systems on their floppies.
| Francis Stracke		| My opinions are my own.  I don't steal them.|
| Department of Mathematics	|=============================================|
| University of Chicago		| Non sequiturs make me eat lampshades	      |
| francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu	|   				       	      |