Looking for a *QUIET* computer

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 04:13:46PM -0400, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> This puts me in mind of the Commodore 64 floppy disk drive. To save money,
> Commodore had the same processor reading the drive mech as talking to the
> IEEE bus. As someone said:
> 
> 'Loads programs faster than you can type them in!!! (But only just..)'

The 9600bps serial link to the floppy probably didn't help.  I have seen
custom 8bit parallel interfaces to the 1541, and the load time was
amazing.

Len Sorensen
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