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You’re talking about the Integrated Woz Machine. It was a custom disk controller that Wozniak created that was used in the Apple ][, /// and I believe on the or
by ronbarr 4y ago
You’re talking about the Integrated Woz Machine. It was a custom disk controller that Wozniak created that was used in the Apple ][, /// and I believe on the original Macs. It was cheap, fast and worked.
- wrs 4y agoAnd a later Mac, the IIfx, introduced I/O coprocessors to run the IWM, among other things. All part of the glorious wheel of reincarnation. [0] [0] https://www.computer-dictionary-online.org/definitions-c/cycle-of-reincarnation.html https://www.computer-dictionary-online.org/definitions-c/cyc...
- duskwuff 4y agoCrazier yet: the IOPs on the IIfx were 6502-based microcontrollers.
- nsxwolf 4y agoThe Integrated Woz Machine was the custom single-chip version of the Apple II floppy controller.