Source: https://www.scribd.com/doc/235024900/Unit-6-Analysis-1-Memory-Cost
Now think about the amount of storage we will have 45 years from now.
Source: https://www.scribd.com/doc/235024900/Unit-6-Analysis-1-Memory-Cost
Now think about the amount of storage we will have 45 years from now.
With “waiting for” they mean probably the slow read/write speed.
Hard disks were blazing fast compared to floppies.
the c64’s lt.kernel hard disk had a data transfer speed of 38 kilobytes per second. compare to something like the st506/mfm (the first 5.25in hdd) with specs that max out at 5 megabits per second.
which was a significant upgrade over the 1541 floppy drive at like 400 bytes per second (up to ~ 2.5 kilobytes per second with a fastload cartridge). atari’s floppy drive was about twice as fast, apple’s were even faster. commodore at the time insisted on backwards compatibility with their earlier disk drive, which is why the 1541 was so fucking slow.
They still are.
Agree, and it was noisy as fuck.
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