[Coco] The COCO vs The Apple II

[RETRO Innovations]

On 1/11/2015 12:42 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote:
> The thing that bugs me about the 154x drives for the C64s is that they were
> designed poorly- as a peripheral.
I don't know that I'd agree completely there.  I think it was an idea 
ahead of its time.  Most new peripherals for contemporary PCs are like 
this, where the peripherals are smart.  As well, at the time, most 
people bought 1 drive, so the distinction was academic.

That said, given 20/20 hindsight, I agree the Apple II and Coco had the 
better approach, which was the create a "controller" one bought a single 
time, and then the drives were cheaper.

Jim