27th February 2004, 3:21 PM
Hmm, I was thinking cart speeds, but I suppose it's true enough that memory cards are surprisingly slow compaired to that. I guess there's reason enough for it..., for now...
"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)