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To: Robert Salasidis who wrote (164755)	4/30/2002 6:02:59 PM
From: tcmay	Respond to of 186894

"Was the Sol not a Z-80 or an 8080/5 machine. I remember playing with one in a computer store at the time (Star Trek), and the feature that came to mind was the the 8" floppy disks were always spinning - to improve access times " 8080A. I swapped-in various other 8080As I had laying around. I think I ended up with an AMD part, ironically. I never even had the 8-inch floppies. That drive is basically what sunk Processor Tech:it took a lot of development time and money to get there, and then the drives were too large, too heavy, too slow. Apple went with a much smaller drive, and was successful. --Tim May