Re: Anybody aware of the description of a 19pin connector of an Apple 5.25 Disk Drive ?

[David Schmidt <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On 5/7/2013 9:33 PM, barrym95838 wrote:
> You mentioned the staggering of sectors on individual tracks, allowing the next readable sector to appear just as the decoding of the previous was complete.  One thing that I noticed was that DOS 3.3 seemed to boot-load more quickly than a standard BLOAD; I read that the boot tracks had been carefully interleaved for optimal throughput, but that standard files were stored with a simpler, slower ordering.  Have any of you guys heard about this?  Were there any DOS 3.3 RWTS mods that took advantage of this, improving performance?  If I'm being foolishly naive, I'm prepared for the beating ;-)

There are simpler and less efficient (in terms of disk utilization) 
encoding schemes that are faster to decode - some "protection" schemes 
took advantage of them to enable very fast load times.  As long as you 
don't need the complete theoretical capacity of the Disk II, it was a 
great way to very quickly blink hi-res screens up once power is applied.