[Coco] drive crash

[Nick Marentes]

On 7/02/2015 6:44 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> There are still places on this planet where that wasted bandwidth can amount
> to a huge penalty for that user when he goes to pay his net bill even if he
> is paying for it in scrawny chickens.
>
> We should be ashamed of ourselves.

I guess we live in a world or excess. The waste that mankind produces is 
incredible in areas far beyond our e-mail systems.

I do my part to improve things... I use multi-statement lines in Basic, 
I keep my comments to a minimum and I prefer to write tight Assembly 
Language code.   :)

But seriously, I saw this waste coming back in the mid 80's when I saw a 
DOS driver for using a Serial mouse. It was 80K!!

80 freakin' K to read a revolving ball! That was more than my CoCo2 at 
the time!

Unfortunately, things have gotten far worst since then that I'm afraid.

>
> Nick, you made a comment quite a few years back about the net bandwidth for
> the internet getting to Aussie land wasn't much faster than a telephone
> modem because it was passing thru the original Telstar satellite. I'd assume
> there are better birds out there now, but  did any of the big boys ever lay
> in a mutlicore fiber cable?
>
I don't think it was me but yes, we have improved. We still have copper 
wires. Not sure about fibre. Bob Devries will know better than I about 
this (Hey Bob! Chime in!)

Nick