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by rbanffy 33 days ago
Cassettes with automation, the way, say, the Epson HX-20 does, aren't bad - they are slow, but can do random access. That said, the Disk ][ was very much ahead of its time. A bit unfortunate the Apple ][ didn't have any sort of built-in timed interrupts to make the firmware work at higher clock speeds - this locked the II to 1MHz for far too long.