Lamar Owen:
> Lots of DVD drives use the Z80 and the successor chips
Tom Horsley:
That must explain why it takes 'em 10 minutes to figure
out what kind of disk you just put in the drive :-).
LOL! I've never really understood why computer hardware is handled so
crapily. The computer can do millions of somethings a second, but it
takes 15+ seconds to recognise a disc and mount it, or notice that
there's a wireless network, spend ages connecting to it, etc.
I've still got a Z80 based personal computer in the spare room (a
VZ300), that I've never figured out a practical use for.
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