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Re: ADTPro with fast Disk II reads released



schmidtd wrote:

>> Yet another suggestion: keep the drive motor running all the time when
>> transferring 5.25 inch disks - or do it like ADT and turn it on a bit
>> before the current serial transfer has finished. That would prevent the
>> drive startup delays.

> I've been thinking about how to do that in my world of very different
> speeds.  Imagine the poor cassette or 300 baud (coming...) user.

Well, the client would know if it was doing cassette or 300 baud
transfer, wouldn't it? Couldn't you just do it only for, say, 19K or
higher speeds?

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Linards Ticmanis