True. The Atari drives had internal rom mods to speed them up from
19.2kbps to 38.4, 54.4, and 108kbps. Made by ICD, CSS, and Happy among
others. They used interleaving for the most part except for the Happy
which buffered an entire track at a time. You could read an entire 92k
floppy in something like 10 seconds.
Regards,
Jeff
>And it's possible to do better -- look at stuff like DolphinDOS. Even a
>simple dual-bit method like Epyx FastLoad (where the ATN line [IIRC] is
>used as a second data line) achieves at least 5x improvement. The
>hardware is sound, the software sucked.
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Jeffrey S. Worley
Asheville, NC USA
828-6984887
UberTechnoid_at_Home.com
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Received on Mon Nov 05 2001 - 13:47:50 GMT