>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.
Yes, as mentioned before I really like my Happy-upgraded 810.
A huge difference between it and a normal 810. I don't think a lot
of people bought the Happy upgrade for the speed increase though, but
for it's copying capabilities.
Jeff
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Received on Mon Nov 05 2001 - 13:18:53 GMT