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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 10:11:02PM -0400, phiscock at ee.ryerson.ca wrote:
> 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.

I have seen alternate floppy interfaces for the C64 which loaded a LOT
faster than the stock serial interface.  The drives were capable of much
more than the serial interface they used.

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Len Sorensen