Apple ]['s and C=64 video/ Bad Feelings...

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_crl.com>
Date: Mon Jun 23 17:21:31 1997

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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Received on Mon Jun 23 1997 - 17:21:31 BST