On Feb 4, 9:18 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
FWIW, the CFFA, running on my 8MHz Zipped //e, delivers 44.4KB/sec
data bandwidth for BLOADs through BASIC.SYSTEM, so there's something
to be said for a bus connection. (BTW, transfer rate did not seem
to be strongly affected by acceleration, even with slot speed set to
"fast".)
Interesting - sounds like there's a handshake between bytes that
limits its throughput.
The Rev C. SCSI (from memory, I think we did this once before) is
around 35kb/s on my accelerated IIe. I'd say they're both slow
compared to other options, and certainly slow compared to what's
achievable in a bus connected card.
My marketing skills aren't the best, but I'd guess the majority of
people wanting such a thing on a IIc would be more than satisfied with
SmartPort speeds. The 'power users' are already using IIe's or IIgs's
anyway.