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Re: Using Mac 20 meg HD on A2 drive port???

Subject: Re: Using Mac 20 meg HD on A2 drive port???
From: edhel@LOSETHECAPITALWORDSbigfoot.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.)
Date: 1997/11/20
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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On Fri, 21 Nov 1997 02:28:47 +1300, dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David
Empson) wrote:

>Not by much.  The bit time of the SmartPort protocol is 4 microseconds,
>which is the same as a 5.25" drive.  The only benefit gained is that you
>have a full 7-bit data path instead of a 6-bit encoded format, so you
>save some CPU decoding overhead, and get an extra 17% throughput.

Would those //c hard drives sold by Sequential be the same way?
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