> I've not heard much about the Nipkow disks lately, anyone? Those
> could work for wearables, and the parts could be made on-site?
You know, I was running through some of my old archived messages,
looking at the Nipkow thread. I still think it has promise.
> > I don't know that I would use the word run. Execute, maybe...
>
> Maybe you have higher expectations than us who've run Z80's at a
> couple
> MHz, off one 8" floppy, with 32k Ram, and eventually a whole 300
> baud modem...
Actually, I only got rid of my Xerox 820 a few years ago, and until then
was still using Wordstar on 8" disk. I still use my old Model 100
laptop (Z80 based, 32K RAM, 32K rom) which was my high power
system until I went PC based. I also still have 12" hard disk platters
in the garage, but sadly no drive on which to use them.
The sad part is that both of those computers are functionally faster
and more responsive than a 486/50 or less, running W95. Now,
for text based apps, that's a different story. But W95 slows anything
tremendously -- it has lots of overhead.
Silly me -- my expectations are that a machine running at 50MHz,
with a 32 bit bus and 1000x more memory (32M), running its "o/s"
should be functionally faster than a 2 - 8 MHz machine with an 8 bit
bus, running its "o/s" with only 32K.
:-)
-- Chuck Knight
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