16th May 2005, 11:39 PM
One thing to remember is the games didn't actually take up the whole disk, and they can compress things a lot more when there's higher disk reading speeds.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)