Re: Apple II vs Atari 800

["Russg" <russgilb@MUNGEsbcglobal.net>]

"Ensor" <> wrote in message news:
..
> Hi,
>
>   >>....CBM serial bus which ran at what, 300bps?
>   >
>   > That's just plain silly. Even the stock IEC speed was much
>   >faster than 300bps....
>
> Yep, it is plain silly that CBM chose such a slow speed. But was THAT
slow!
>
> If you happen to check the following web page:
> http://www.viceteam.org/plain/drive_info.txt You'll see that the 1541
> transferred data at a hideously nippy 0.4KB per second....
>
>   >....When equipped with JiffyDOS....
>
> Totally irrelevant, the majority of users didn't use such upgrades and
were
> stuck with "stock" speeds.
>
>
>   TTFN - Pete.
.4 kb/s  ?  That's 400 bytes /sec or about 4000 bits/sec?