[GTALUG] One of the First Computer TV shows from the 80s.

[phiscock at ee.ryerson.ca]

>> I just started to watch the TVO episode and had a good laugh of the
>> tape loading the software
>
> Hey, don't knock 'em. They were cheap and pretty reliable. For some
> reason (import tariffs? lower disposable income?) floppy drives were
> pretty rare in the UK. They were still faster than a Commodore 64 disk
> drive, though.

Of the C64 floppy disk drive it was said 'Loads programs faster than you
can type them in...but only just.'

Apparently there was some sort of handshaking bug that prevented the drive
from running at full speed, and so they crippled it with a delay loop
somewhere.

-- 
Peter Hiscocks
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