"intelligent" disk drives

[John Foust]

At 07:29 PM 11/15/2007, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 05:14:34PM -0800, Geoff Reed wrote:
>> the C= disk drives were pretty much all smart drives weren't they?
>
>Yes.

While dumpster-diving the just-closed Los Gatos office of Amiga,
I found a 1541.  Afterwards I asked one of the engineers about
it and he said that the 1541 was one of the better computers
made by Commodore.  I think he was joking, of course, given the
horrendous bottlenecks in its software and its bus protocol.

That night, the Amiga sign from the front lawn disappeared and somehow
made its way to Topeka.

- John