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Re: Apple II vs Atari 800



<> wrote in message news:
> On Apr 26, 2:36 am, "Russg" <> wrote:
> >
> > .4 kb/s  ?  That's 400 bytes /sec or about 4000 bits/sec?
>
> Yes. As Ensor says it's hideous. It's more like a tape recorder
> without the need to spool to the sections to load from.
>
> Without a fast loader you can literally *see* the bytes being
> transfered.
> *With* a fastloader the thing is quite usable.
>
> bye
> Marcus

The Atari stock floppy went about 19200 baud, was
capable to 50K baud with some drives and DOSes.
I never had much luck with the faster situations, got
errors, standard speed was pretty reliable.

What was the Apple ][ rate?