On 1/22/06, James Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 1/21/06 3:12 PM, Eric Dunbar at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > <old man voice>"Sonny, I've been using them Macs since the beginning > > of time. When I was young we had to use chisels and magnets to write > > the files on those 400 K "floppy" disks which weren't floppy at all > > and that was when my floppys had more memory than my rams, and, my > > roms. That's a completely different story. > > It certainly *is* a completely different story: your floppy disks can't have > more "memory" than your "rams" (RAM). > > RAM is memory. floppy disks are storage; the two are different. I > understand what your trying to say, it's just that the nomenclature doesn't > fit.
To bring out the anal retentive in me... Floppy disks and RAM are both measured in KB and both store the same binary data. The one simply stores it in transient materials which require continuous input of current whereas the other is a less transient material where the info is stored magnetically. > > I am fairly sure they were activated pretty soon after > > Apple came out with the extended keyboard (was that 1986 or 1987?). > > Here's a resource for that: > > http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/keybow/ (click on the "Apple" menu at left) > > It looks like '87 was the release date for the Extended, with the Extended > II coming out in '90. I've always wondered which of the two was higher in > build quality. Any ideas? I'm guessing the earlier one, since later models > of any product tend to introduce manufacturing shortcuts to help shave > pennies. Extended Keyboard II*. Hands down the best keyboard ever made! I've had numerous Extendeds and Extended IIs over the years (people throw them away nowadays and I simply can't stand to see them go to waste) and the Extended II was IMNSHO a slightly nicer and better quality keyboard (Apple really screwed up in the mid- to late-90s with the el-cheapo extended and compact keyboards (well, OK, so Apple screwed up on many fronts during that time period ;-)). *Although, I loved the "compact" keyboard that came with the SE (same basic design as the Apple Extended Keyboard [I]) because of its size and the fact that it had the same responsiveness as the Extended keyboards. Eric. -- Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
