With average access times (the time it takes to retrieve data off the disk) of less than 50 milliseconds, the 'hard drive' is certainly fast. What's needed is a fast, high capacity, small, robust, cheap, standardised, interchangeable alternative to the floppy disk. Words like 'impractical' and 'silly' come to mind. ![]() ![]() Saving to disk, of course, takes a lot of time and a lot of patience. A really 'fat' 8Mb S1000, fitted with three EXM005 2Mb memory upgrades, will eat six disks pausing only to ask you to insert another disk (make sure they're in the right sequence). This penchant for floppy disks, aided and abetted by the public's demand for 16-bit stereo sound quality, has yet to be satisfied despite the introduction of high density 3.5" disks.įor example, a standard 'slim' two megabyte (2Mb) Akai S1000 eats two 1.4 megabyte floppy disks just to save one full memory. Fortunately, they are - albeit rather slowly. ![]() The worst offenders eat floppy disks as if they were going out of fashion. Over the past few years samplers seem to have developed an insatiable appetite for floppy disks.
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