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SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on July 31, 2023, 02:53:35 am ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on July 30, 2023, 08:58:06 pm ---Haha, the 1581 FDDs were awfully slow. No doubt many people still have fond memories though.
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Surely you are thinking of the 1541?
https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Commodore_1581
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Yes true, the 1541 was much worse. The main one I had in mind.
That said, even the 1581 was not particularly fast compared to what could be achieved with a 3.5" FDD of the same era, essentially due to the fact the interface was still serial. It had the capability of using a parallel interface but the latter was never actually used AFAIK. The "burst" transfer was a whopping 9KB/s. Much faster than the 1541, but the Apple II FDDs could achieve almost twice that years earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1581
Alex Eisenhut:
We know.
Legend has it he's still waiting.
https://steemit.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/epyx-fast-load-commodore-64
Jiffy DOS and various fast loaders got up to 19K per second.
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