23 Jun
1997
23 Jun
'97
10:21 a.m.
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sam Ismail wrote:
If not slow as hell. The worst part about the
commodore 1541 drive is
that it had its own processor, and it was still slow. The bottleneck was
the serial interface. Commodore was lame not to use something faster
than, what was it, 19.2K? In contrast, the Apple Disk ][ could transfer
data at about a rate of 16K per second.
I should clarify this: 19.2K _bps_ vs. 16K _bytes_. Thank you.
Sam
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