>> 1. Gold Card is a combined memory expansion (2MB) and disk >> interface >> which can handle HD and DD floppy disk drives,a nd adds a full >> 68000 >> processor instead of the 8-bit data bus 68008 in the QL. > > I must have a SGC in disguise ^_^ - my GCs have always handled ED > disks - > when I purchased my GC (Nov 1991), I got a dual ED drive with it > (originally > ordered a dual HD drive, but got letter back saying no longer > supplied, but > ED were the standard now and did I still want to order) and a box of > 10 ED > disks - still not completely used up! (at 3.2M per disk, that's > roughly > equivalent to a 30M HD ^_^). Oops, yes thanks - both GC and SGC can of course use ED drives.
> Perhaps the most worrying thing about the purchase of the GC + ED > drives + > Disks is that for roughly the same price today I purchased a > Turion64x2 > 1.6GHz Notebook with 80G HD! But then again, as power has increased > prices > have fallen; and the QL still holds its own for certain things. Technology marches on. I guess creating a Q60 equivalent in those days would have cost thousands not hundreds of pounds. -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
